Tribe Talkin’: Sole Founders vs Co-Founders

Welcome to episode one of Tribe Talkin', a format where the Tribe team discusses issues hitting news rooms, as well as sharing a core concept relevant to venture capital and high growth businesses. 

In this episode we discuss "The Founder", a documentary brought to life by Luke Anear from SafetyCulture, documenting Luke's behind the scene journey alongside other founders like Canva’s Melanie Perkins,  Brighte’s Katherine McConnell and Finder’s Fred Schebesta

https://if.com.au/founder-trailer/ 

The series aims to capture the deep uncertainty, doubt, and struggle founders face in trying to create something from nothing. One journo describes it as one big circle jerk! Hhmm. It’s not every day we get to reference a circle jerk in a podcast, but here we are.

We talk about local VC news- that 9 VC funds are reported to be currently raising captive funds and what we think that means for the Australian VC industry. 

We look at the Blackbird manifesto focused on start-ups coming out of research institutions. It describes some structural barriers stopping effective knowledge transfer flowing out of universities.  https://www.blackbird.vc/foundry 

For our concept deep dive, we look at sole Founder’s vs Co-Founder teams, and the reason we prefer multi-founders from a personal and investment perspective. Whilst we talk about the reasons we prefer these Co-Founding teams, we also discuss the big issue that sometimes plagues them: conflict. Yet whilst conflict is inevitable, it is desirable in the right conditions, and we give a few simple ideas on how to manage it. The full blog article on the topic can be found here: https://tribeglobal.vc/why-co-founders-teams/   

As with all our content, we’ve love to hear from you, especially if you have a different view. If you like what you hear, we’d really appreciate if you can rate the podcast and any comments are always welcome.  

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