A search for someone to build with is really a search for shared values. Skills can be learned. Values rarely change.
Most failed partnerships were never a skills mismatch. Both people could do their part. What broke it was something deeper. One wanted to grow slow and steady. The other wanted to move fast and raise money. One treated the work as a mission. The other treated it as a project to test and move on from.
None of that shows up on a profile or in a portfolio. It only shows up in conversation, in how someone talks about failure, money, speed, and what success actually means to them.
Before you ask whether someone has the right skills, ask what they actually care about. That answer tells you more about whether this works long term.
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