What To Look For in Co-Founders
What You’ll learn
Iterative is hosting an online event to help founders identify what they should look for when evaluating co-founders to work with for their startup. Join Hsu Ken, Managing Partner at Iterative, Victoria Riingen, Co-Founder and CEO of BeautyBuddy and Luc Loja, Co-Founder and CEO of Coverio as they discuss how they met their co-founders, why they chose them and what they looked for when making the decision.
By attending, you’ll learn
What attributes you should look for when choosing a co-founder
What are the signs and qualities that indicate you should not work with someone
Whether to optimize for shared values or skillset
Format
There will be a 20 minute panel discussion with the speakers talking about their respective experiences in choosing co-founders to work with. This will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Speaker
Hsu Ken was previously the Chief Product Officer of Workmate, an on-demand blue collar staffing platform in Southeast Asia. In 2014, he was VP of Product at Weave (YCS14). In 2009, he started Decide.com an early machine learning company that predicted the future price of consumer goods. It was acquired by eBay in 2013.
Victoria is the Co-Founder and CEO of BeautyBuddy, a SaaS-enabled marketplace to streamline operations and drive discovery for beauty/wellness services. BeautyBuddy was part of Iterative’s Winter 2022 batch. Previously, she was a Regional Account Manager (Digital Advertising) for Spotify.
Luc Loja is the Co-Founder and CEO of Coverio, a global payroll, hiring, and compliance platform for Web3 companies. Coverio was a part of Iterative's Summer 2022 batch. Previously, he was a Strategy Manager at GajiGesa, where he helped in their pre-series A fundraise.
About Iterative
Since Iterative started in March 2020, we have raised $65M across two funds, invested in 80+ companies, 160+ founders and the total value of Iterative companies is now worth $1.2 billion.
Iterative’s $55M Fund II was led by Cendana, K5 Global, Village Global, Goodwater Capital with participation from a large network of Silicon Valley founders and execs including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Achmad Zaky, (Bukalapak), Andrew Chen (General partner a16z, Uber), Qasar Younis (Former COO YC, Applied Intuition), David Shim (Foursquare), Kum Hong Siew (Head of Airbnb Asia), Moses Lo (Founder, Xendit), and many more. It’s worthwhile noting that half of the $55M Fund II is dedicated to making follow-on investments in portfolio companies.
Iterative's mission is to increase the GDP of Southeast Asia through entrepreneurship. To do that, we need to (1) make entrepreneurship more accessible to more people and (2) give founders the tools and support to be successful. As part of this mission, we want to show how it's possible for anyone to validate a startup idea quickly, without needing to code.
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