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How to scale your co-founder relationship alongside your startup — Manu Sharma & Brian Rieger of Labelbox


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Our guests are Manu Sharma and Brian Rieger, co-founders of Labelbox.


In this interview, we take a microscope to their co-founder DNA, exploring the ins and outs of how they’ve made the relationship work over the years. We discuss:

  • How Manu and Brian came together as co-founders and landed on the idea for Labelbox.
  • How they intentionally aligned their skillsets, values and responsibilities before writing a line of code.
  • Their rituals for spending valuable time together as the company grows, including thought-starter questions for deep discussions and sharing an executive coach.
  • How they run the executive team at scale and sketch out decision rights.
  • Manu and Brian both have extremely valuable advice to other founders, either those in the early stages of looking for a co-founder, or folks who want to add a little magic to an existing co-founding relationship.


    You can follow Manu at @manuaero and Brian at @RiegerB on Twitter.


    You can email us questions directly at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter @ twitter.com/firstround and twitter.com/brettberson

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