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Those friends/coworkers won't make it in the long-run, even if you can convince them in the beginning.

You need someone that is hungry to start a business, sick and tired of working for someone else, and will sacrifice their free time to make it happen.

I've tried at least half a dozen times in the past to start a company with friends/coworkers..and most failed miserably for this reason.

Some people just aren't meant to start or run a company and want the stability and security of being an employee.

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> You need someone that is hungry to start a business, sick and tired of working for someone else, and will sacrifice their free time to make it happen.

Do you have any ideas where I can meet and get to know such people?

Undergrad me thought that FAANG was the place to find such people because in undergrad we were too inexperienced, but now FAANG me thinks that undergrad was the place, and that maybe grad school will be similar? But I'm worried that I again won't have much luck at grad school.

Is it really that rare of a trait or am I just looking in the wrong places?

have you thought of starting solo to begin? Why do you want partners so early on? I'm luck enough to have met a few at work that I might consider working with on businesses in the future if opportunities come, but those people are honestly quite rare. There are plenty of smart engineers I've met on the jobs that have 0 desire to run a business and enjoy stability, why go the route of resistance?

I have however started a non-tech related business on the side, don't know where this would take me but can say the least because I've started this business, I managed to meet some ambitious and risk-taking individuals, when you meet them you will know their mindset is very different from many of the folks you work with in the office, these people typically dare to lose and dare to dream.

I've tried starting things solo before and I think my skillset is not diverse enough. I have a very engineering-heavy skillset and I've been met with failure a few times before doing things solo.

It's a fair point though and I don't see this as stopping me, but it's a sore spot and I've been trying to find a partner so I can try to take a different approach with someone who has a different point of view than me.

attend startup weekends, hackathons and other places where such folks congregate. You may not get the right partner right away, but you will get to know the people who are in a similar boat as you. From there you have to do a trial and error to zero in the partners that suite you.

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