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tkiley on Oct 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA

You've mentioned that co-founder fallouts are one of the most biggest problems facing companies at YC stage.

Do you see any useful correlates to this problem? What types of teams tend to have infighting vs. those that don't?

sama on Oct 9, 2015 [–]

The biggest correlation is that teams that met recently fall apart much more often.

The shared history seems to be valuable for keeping teams together through the very though times of a startup.

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