Startup Co-Founder Dating: The Make-or-Break Decision Before the Cap Table

Find out how to build the team that gets the "yes" from co-founders and from investors. Every investor asks two questions: "What's the market size?" and "Is this the team that can pull it off?" You can have a massive TAM, a killer product, and still get passed on because your founding team doesn't convince. Worse, you can close the round and then blow up from the inside. Co-founder conflict is the #1 startup killer, and most of it was preventable. Becky Wang has built, scaled, and exited companies across luxury, tech, media, and fintech. She's made the right bets on people and survived the wrong ones. In this session, she'll share her framework for deal due diligence with love: values alignment, complementary skill gaps, conflict styles, and the hard conversations you must have before signing anything.