How to Release the Pressure of a Major Disagreement

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"I think the biggest thing that I had to learn and Amy, our former Batch Director, used to talk about this a lot," he said. "It's just as likely the person that I'm working with wants to avoid conflict or wants to take time to process conflict." He added: "You can't blame the other person for like not acting correctly... you have to take responsibility"

Y Combinator group partners Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss the importance of having honest and difficult conversations with startup founders. While having hard conversations can be uncomfortable, Michael and Dalton argue that this transparency is essential for founders to grow and ultimately, these experiences help founders have their own hard conversations that they've been avoiding with the people around them.
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