If they are young, they are full of their own ambitions and ideas. It is hard to cooperate.
If they are old, they already have built something in the past and not looking for help in exchange of new risks.
Finding a co-founder is an additional full-time job. I have tried that in 2018 when I was starting my startup. I spent days on meetings and forums like this one.
I found dozens of amazing folks, but it was impossible to negotiate and actually start something together.
Finding a co-founder = finding a girlfriend. You do not seek for one intentionally. You just live having a chance to meet that one. Same with a co-founder.
Even though I feel devastated (I have been growing my account since 2016), my post is emotions-free. Only facts. Did Y got Z.
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Great point! But do you think people of China trust WeChat? I doubt you need to have reputation to do what Elon plans to do with X. You just need lots of power/money.
The rule of thumb is to act like a regular human. If you are a savvy user, you have shortcuts for everything, you have scripts for optimizing your work, then be careful.
Exporting your data is a great piece of advice. Thanks for reminding that.
The only risk I see is people starting to upload bad stuff and Cloudflare shuts down my account. Hopefully, this does not happen.