EP4-1 | From Scotland to Taiwan: Choosing the Co-Founder Who Can Make or Break Your Startup

It's also about self-learning in relation to another person.

What do you think is the right mix between co-founders in terms of the skills, your factors like values, communication, personality, and emotional resilience.

Is there a good mix of all these things? Because we've heard some cases wherein the founder himself doesn't really have good patience.

I'm not sure how he mixes well with his co-founders or that your co-founder is highly technical, highly knowledgeable, but has an attitude of What's the right mix for this? I'm sure there is some balance between these things, but personally, what would you value most?

For me, I think I value communication and values and emotional resilience more than skills.

But this also differs from each startup.

right? Because for me, I'm a non technical founder building a technical platform.

So I prefer someone who can complement my technical skills.

But he also has to have like the same values and emotional resilience.

And they also be able to communicate as well.

But I've also heard about different startups when all three have a very similar skill sets, especially in Taiwan, because it's a lot of SMEs where people actually team up with their friends or family, and then they build like a small SME together, which is amazing as well.

So maybe complementary skills might matter, might not matter, but are you able to communicate? Are you able to solve challenges and chaos together? I think that is probably more important nowadays.

I'm hearing one word from you as someone who's in the mental health expertise, and the word is communication.

It looks like as long as you communicate, there's always a chance to bond together, whether you are coming from different technical skills or different culture, I'm hearing a lot about communicating these differences so the other person would understand.

And then the next word that I'm hearing was something about emotional resilience.

I could really relate to this because as long as the other person or myself do not freak out in the middle of chaos, I think these problems are solvable.