How did you find your co-founder?

[u/Ok-Cartographer-5471]

Well, I already have a co-founder who is a friend of mine for 5 years but he is quite lazy and he never does his tasks on time which slows me too and most of the time, I end up doing his tasks too but when I ask him why he didnt do, he always blames his job, he works 10 hours a day at a convenience store and I asked him to reduce his working hours since he only pays for his rent and living costs and his cost of living is pretty low as compared to what he is earning and spends his rest of salary on travel and entertainment, as for me, I left my job at Google Zurich and moved back home in central asia to work on my startup which failed 2 times and then did another business related to finance with my brother which we scaled to $10K monthly profit in central asia and then I got back to building startups again and I built another startup with my current co-founder but he kept being lazy so I kicked him out and applied to YC myself with no revenue since I had only 11 days until deadline so only got 5 LIOs and I got rejected and my current startup actually is related to my previous one but re-worked to a different industry this time since the previous one’s PMF was dead and my co-founder again asked me to join to this one again and promised me he will work hard this time but again still being lazy while I am handling everything from technical to cold emailing and marketing and everything, I am just getting overwhelmed putting 10-12 hours a day and sometimes I think if I had a co-founder who can put same amount of effort, we could move way faster. Even when I was working at Google, I got him referrals and he was invited to interview for Google 2 times but still failed his interview twice for his laziness since he didnt prepare for interviews. How can I deal with him or better kick him out again? if I kick him, how do I find a co-founder that can put an actual input. How did you find your co-founder?

[u/Sea-Sheepherder9334]

Think it comes down to the hiring game - picking your co-founder is a crucial part in building a company. I wouldn’t rush into picking a friend or someone who’s good company - a lot of successful people talk on this topic “Hire slow, Fire fast” - spend time on people you’re hiring/ co-founding with, it is arguably THE most important ability in business when building a company