Co-founder red flags aren’t about chemistry—they’re founder execution risks that quietly destroy momentum before teams realize what’s wrong.

Entrepreneur mindset shows up in how founding teams make decisions and execute under pressure.

Most founders think co-founder red flags are about trust, chemistry, or shared vision. They’re not. The most dangerous co-founder red flags are execution risks—and most teams don’t recognize them until momentum is already gone.

In this episode, Professor Gary Palin breaks down why startups don’t usually fail because co-founders fight, but because execution quietly breaks down between them. From blurred accountability to slow decision-making and mismatched risk tolerance, these hidden execution failures stall otherwise promising companies.

You’ll learn:

• Why shared ownership of everything creates paralysis, not collaboration
• How different risk speeds between co-founders silently kill momentum
• Why vision alignment without execution alignment is a dangerous illusion
• How avoiding hard feedback slows execution more than open conflict ever does

If you’re building with a co-founder, this episode gives you three practical execution questions every founding team must answer clearly—before growth stalls or decisions grind to a halt.

Co-founder relationships don’t save startups.
Clear execution does.

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