WHEN FOUNDERS CLASH

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

It doesn't matter how much you raise or how good your product is, co-founder fights kill more startups than competition or running out of money ever will. Four months after raising from Perplexity's founder, AI startup Astra shut down - not because its product failed or money ran out, but because its co-founders couldn't agree on whether to wait for Fortune 500 deals or pivot to faster sales. The company had everything going for it: two enterprise beta clients, backing from prestigious investors. However, while one founder wanted those logos and the other wanted speed, their startup bled out during the argument.