65% of startups fail because of co-founder issues. Don't let yours be one of them. It's not about

if you face challenges. It's about when you face these challenges. Oh my God, everything is breaking.

We need all hands on deck because if that was an employee, you would fire them. It can be

detrimental to your company. Here's how to find the right co-founder. Welcome to Just Grow With It. I've always been a little

impulsive. I get an idea and just go with it. But that's the thing about life and business. You're

always growing, learning, and figuring it out as you go. Welcome to Just Grow with It, the podcast where I

share lessons I've learned as a founder and creator, the mistakes, the pivots, and the wins, and how staying consistent can change everything. So if you're ready to grow with me, let's get into it. At Rella, we're a team of three co-founders. However, we may or may not have had an additional fourth co-founder in the very, very early days. So all of these lessons about co-founders, we've had to learn the hard way. Here are some things that you need to know before you commit to working with a co-founder. The first thing you need to ask yourself might be an obvious question, but it is do you even need a co-founder? Not every person or every business needs a co-founder or a co-founding team. Or on the opposite end, a lot of people think that they don't need a co-founder

because it was their idea. They want to be the one that works on everything. But in reality,

you probably should have a co-founder. I want to go through my overall thought process on the pros

and cons of having a co-founder or a co-founding team and help you figure out which one fits your business.

And when we first started RELA, this was the checklist and kind of the things that I was thinking

about before I decided I actually needed co-founders for this idea that I had.

For context, I was the one that had the original idea of Rela.

It's definitely evolved since then and become an entirely new company

in its own right. I knew that I needed help developing, but truthfully, I didn't want co-founders

at first. If you listen to my entrepreneurship story, which was episode one, you would know that I

was pretty against having co-founders because I thought that this was going to be a project.

I thought that this was my idea and I could make passive income on this idea that I had and I didn't think that I needed

co-founders. I thought I could just pay someone to help me build this. And while a lot of times with any

tech product or any other product that you might be building, you can pay people and outsource it, but it gets

very extensive to do that. And also, sometimes you need someone internally that's as hands-on

as you are in the company. Because let's be honest, when you're outsourcing it to someone, they're

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