{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Heart of Entrepreneurship","title":"How to Build Trust Among Co-Founders in Startups","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2888,"description":"Three equal co-founders, no titles yet, all best friends from high school. Jesse Pujji met a founder living that exact setup today, and the conversation they had surfaces one of the clearest frameworks for building a co-founder team that actually holds together. The principles that came out of it apply well beyond that one founder.\nIn this episode of Heart of Entrepreneurship, Jesse and his co-host Dave Kashen work through two parallel questions: how do individual founders build genuine self-awareness from the inside out, and how do co-founding teams build the structure that keeps trust intact over time? Dave reframes the startup itself as a dojo for personal and spiritual growth, arguing that founders who orient around inner development get to win twice. Jesse maps the collective side, from aligning on vision and day-to-day culture to creating the governance structures that prevent resentment from building quietly beneath the surface.\n- How to deepen self-awareness beyond strengths and development areas, including body intelligence, language cues, and above/below-the-line check-ins\n- Dave's five concrete steps for building individual self-awareness within the context of running a startup, anchored in the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership\n- What it means to communicate to reveal rather than communicate to control, and why the shift makes difficult conversations easier and faster\n- How to align co-founders through separate 10-out-of-10 vision exercises, so differences in ambition and working style surface before they become fault lines\n- Why observable, rateable behaviors are far more useful than values on a wall, and how to build a culture survey that makes accountability concrete\n- The withhold-withdraw-project pattern that quietly erodes co-founder trust, and how candor interrupts it before it compounds\n- Why unanimous consent is the default failure mode for co-founding teams, and how to design clear decision authority so the right person decides the right...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D3q8uoAKBP9yDvAXKSX05IFBpfUTTR8eiffeZmJ_DWk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNzcz/NGQxYmUwMmU2ZWQx/YjgxZTVmNGEwYTJi/NjMzOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}