The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have - Y Combinator
## Metadata
- Author: **Y Combinator**
- Full Title: The Hard Conversations Founders Don't Want to Have
- Category: #podcasts
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/8be38e24-27af-4478-93a4-7544bedb435e
## Highlights
- How to have a successful hard conversation
Key takeaways:
• Hard conversations are important, and can be helpful in building a strong relationship with cofounders.
• Hard conversations can be difficult, but are worth it in the long run.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
We would get to the middle. Now, I think there's a couple others that I see. One is this assumption that we are like God like advisors with complete understandings of every user base and every problem in the world. And like they can kind of like shortcut talking to users if they just spend enough time talking to us. And so that one is just like folks like so often in this one, I'm just like, you're having a conversation with me that you should have with your customers. Like talk to them. Like I don't use your product. Talk to the people who do. I think the other one, which I really try to push back on is I'm lazy and I didn't come up with the agenda. I want to like roam my random thoughts and over the course of two hours, we will have 20 minutes of productivity. But I don't want to organize my thoughts and I want you to accommodate that. And for that one, I'm always just like, that's like you're not training yourself for success here. Like you expect more from yourself. Like if your competitors can get 20 minutes of input, 20 minutes of output, they will do way better than two hours of input, 20 minutes of output. And just, you know, that seems to kick people into gear. What's the other one that you're excited about?
Speaker 2
I think we can shift gears to a couple of other context for hard conversations. Let's talk about hard conversations, not with us, but with co-founders. And so the thing I want to set up here is that classic thing is people become co-founders. Yes. ([Time 0:10:12](https://share.snipd.com/snip/6888179a-55b6-47ef-8266-dde6fc8bbaab))