Love this notion, as one bad egg can take down even the best startup team.

Some of the suggestions point to scraping profiles for matchable keywords, but the problem there is that much of a profile is more hopeful than helpful.

Maybe harnessing Briggs Myers type personality tests could yield better pairings? Also, especially critical in a remote work world is accountability and progress.

Plenty of challenges here, but the sooner these matches can be made based on more objectively identified affinities and skills, and the sooner a match can be tested with perhaps smaller, less consequential tasks would be a way to go about it. Having built a couple non-profits, corralling volunteer experts is akin to herding cats, only often far less fun.

This service, added to the already brilliant Platform, would set it a world apart from any other incubator/accelerator I've ever seen...and likely would generate the kind of loyalty any brand would dream of...much less one with their hands in the pie.

cheers,

What value would Platform Studio bring to the cofounder search? Beyond LinkedIn, the "profile" of the cofounder includes all their public posts / past interactions on the platform (signals of quality of thinking, reputation and interests).

As someone open to searching for a cofounder, I think Alan's ideas are pretty cool. Would the cofounder search app be tied to Platform Studio, or would it be open to others outside of it?

@Alan Gordon does it make sense to only match those pre-idea, or at different stages?

That's for resurfacing this, @Alan Gordon. This has been on the backlog for a while but has not been prioritized.

Would love to hear more about what you and others think would make for a great Co-Founder Matching program!