🌟Fireside Chat | How to Find Your Technical Co-Founder
​Finding the right technical co-founder is one of the hardest and most defining moves a founder can make. Do you wait until your product vision is ready? Build alone? Outsource? Or find a partner who believes in the mission as much as you do?
​In this candid fireside chat, SkillsRobin founder Lisa shares with interviewer Jack, CTO of Kumo Study, her experiences of helping founders search for and ultimately winning over technical collaborators.
​Tune in for the missteps, mindset shifts, and practical strategies that helped the founders bridge the gap between vision and attracting the talent for execution.
​💡 You’ll Hear About
​How to spot and appeal to the right kind of technical partner for your stage
​How to interview for technical collaborators
​How to pitch your vision so it excites builders, even before traction
​When to partner, when to hire, and when to wait
​Common red flags and lessons learned from the early journey
​🧠Why This Matters
​A technical co-founder or collaborator isn’t just a coder, they’re a creative counterpart who amplifies your ideas and brings them to life. This conversation will help you reframe the search from “finding someone to build for you” to “building with someone who believes in you.”
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​🌟 Lisa Deng, Founder of SkillsRobin (LinkedIn)
​Lisa matches early stage startup founders with their very first founding engineers, through her platform SkillsRobin.
​SkillsRobin connects founders with pre- vetted ANZ developers seeking startup openings - full-time, part-time, or equity- based. Special offer for bMightie members who are hiring - 50% off through 2025 (use code: BMIGHTIE25). 👉Visit here to browse developers or subscribe to monthly shortlist for new talent.
Lisa's broader background includes working as a product designer within multiple Series A startups, teaching UX at Sydney University, working in business ops and community at a startup co-working space and a brief stint working as a GIS analyst in government.
​🌟 Jack Reichelt, CTO of Kumo Study (LinkedIn)
​Jack is the CTO of Kumo Study, a platform built to be the bridge between success and support, transforming how advisors manage student needs to make support more personalised, proactive, and scalable.
​With over a decade of experience in software engineering and product development across companies like Atlassian, Grok Learning, and Industrie&Co, Jack brings a deep understanding of how to build robust, user-centred technology that scales with purpose.
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