I run a small startup with my co-founder.
Things are going pretty well, I built the product myself and my co-founder has found a customer and sold it to them. We haven't taken any loans, accepted any funding or given away any equity.
We are currently preparing to launch in the new year.
My co-founder has some experience coding, and sometimes takes it upon himself to dive in the code and make changes.
This causes a couple of problems:
* He doesn't understand the stack well, and has introduced bugs
* We have lost potential opportunities because he has told customers that the product doesn't have features it actually does. When asked why, he will say things like I didn't see it in the code
* He has a tendency to take out his laptop when meeting potential customers, bring up the codebase, and try to talk them through it
On the plus side, he has found us our first customer, and I have no doubt that he can find more (he's very salesy, and well connected) but I really need him to step away from the code!
I'm just not sure how to raise this with him without damaging the relationship. Any advice, HN?
Things are going pretty well, I built the product myself and my co-founder has found a customer and sold it to them. We haven't taken any loans, accepted any funding or given away any equity.
We are currently preparing to launch in the new year.
My co-founder has some experience coding, and sometimes takes it upon himself to dive in the code and make changes.
This causes a couple of problems:
* He doesn't understand the stack well, and has introduced bugs
* We have lost potential opportunities because he has told customers that the product doesn't have features it actually does. When asked why, he will say things like I didn't see it in the code
* He has a tendency to take out his laptop when meeting potential customers, bring up the codebase, and try to talk them through it
On the plus side, he has found us our first customer, and I have no doubt that he can find more (he's very salesy, and well connected) but I really need him to step away from the code!
I'm just not sure how to raise this with him without damaging the relationship. Any advice, HN?