Two creators are not always better than one
I think the reason Y-combinator and others like to see two or more founders is that at least those two people are willing to work with&#x2F;for each other. It is a rough filtering mechanism, and probably a very useful one, especially if your philosophy is that technical people make great business founders.<p>More honestly it is &quot;Technical people can make great startup founders, but first filter on if they can recruit one other person to work with them.&quot; In any team of two, most of the time there was one person that had the idea and drive and asked the other to join them. A technical person with this type of skill, that is willing to spit the ownership of a company with someone else, is much more likely to have the skills and talents to run a high growth startup than someone who has not recruited their first person to join them.<p>I would imagine that when interviewing a pair of founders, whether consciously or not, people place one of them into the CEO role and the other into the CTO role. Don&#x27;t most startup teams split up work like this pretty quickly?