TLDR Founders · STRATEGIES & TACTICS
FINDING A TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
Engineers convert on momentum, not vision. Technical talent is often flooded with pitches from “ideas people.” A better strategy is to pitch traction. Potential co-founders respond better when a project is de-risked - whether through secured partnerships, paid customers, or a functional no-code prototype. You aren't recruiting them to start something - you are recruiting them to scale something that already works.