Minu: One of the core value that brings us together is crossmanship. When you spend a lot of time with tools and the act of creation, I think it's very fair to say that people build AI for quality. It really is this core that has brought us together and has now transformed ourselves into a great team through which we build in our building level box. This is how quality and craftsmanship and things are built in this whole time period. It brought us even more closer than ever before.
Our guests are Manu Sharma and Brian Rieger, co-founders of Labelbox.
In this interview, we take a microscope to their co-founder DNA, exploring the ins and outs of how they’ve made the relationship work over the years. We discuss:
- How Manu and Brian came together as co-founders and landed on the idea for Labelbox.
- How they intentionally aligned their skillsets, values and responsibilities before writing a line of code.
- Their rituals for spending valuable time together as the company grows, including thought-starter questions for deep discussions and sharing an executive coach.
- How they run the executive team at scale and sketch out decision rights.
Manu and Brian both have extremely valuable advice to other founders, either those in the early stages of looking for a co-founder, or folks who want to add a little magic to an existing co-founding relationship.
You can follow Manu at @manuaero and Brian at @RiegerB on Twitter.
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