The importance of a strong co-founder relationship, highlighting how Brad and Ran's long-term trust and shared experiences enabled them.
The importance of a strong co-founder relationship, highlighting how Brad and Ran's long-term trust and shared experiences enabled them to navigate crucial decisions and ultimately secure funding.
And what we learned the hard way was when you build a company, when you build a startup, you need to have some unfair advantage. And actually, we had an unfair disadvantage in that business, which was we were two Canadians and we didn't know the first thing about the American health care system and the way the insurance industry worked, which were critical pieces to running that business. And so though we got funded, we went into Y Combinator, we got it off the ground, we got some traction, uh we weren't able to get the insurers on board, which meant a very small subset of the population was interested in our service. And because we weren't connected, because that wasn't an industry we had any fair advantage on, we kind of weren't able to get the company fully off the ground and in the air. And so we ended up deciding that, hey, we're not the right founders. That kind of founder market
fit is critically important. Uh we learned the hard way. And so we realize that we don't have an unfair advantage.