Nathaniel Fetalvero · · 1 min readTrouble in paradise: Dealing with a difficult co-founder
Having just won the Startup Weekend Singapore hackathon in 2018, Eugene Soh set out to build virtual reality startup Mind Palace with one of his teammates.
But Soh soon realized that his co-founder wasn’t an ideal business partner and found himself doing most of the work. After some deliberation, Soh decided he needed to go through the unpleasant experience of letting his co-founder go for the betterment of the business.
“It was not fun. It felt like a real breakup,” he says. “I had to pick up the pieces emotionally.”
Find out more about Mind Palace and how Soh dealt with firing his co-founder on this week’s episode of Startup Snapshot.
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Correction: At timecode 03:25, Soh says he “didn’t have a working demo” on how VR can help the elderly. He misspoke and meant to say that he did not have a working demo specifically for dementia patients.
Editing by Dante Gagelonia
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