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Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator

The Social Radars

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The Importance of Maintaining a Good Co-Founder Relationship

I was horribly conflict-averse early in my career rather than sort of address that and be willing to like inflect into conflict. I would sort of eat it because I thought, oh, well, in order for a startup to be great, I need my relationship with my co-founder to be good. So the best way I could support him was to let him run the company the way he wanted to. Now we spend a lot of time helping people try to overcome that. If anything, the tricky thing that I did was I tried to code my way out of it.

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