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I'm getting better, thanks.

>as soon as the company is doing ok, you can and should hire an employee to shoulder some of the responsibilities a cofounder

I agree, it's hard to pull off once we get accustomed to being a single founder (survivorship bias?).

I built my company ground up from a former village in India with limited funds. I hired freshers and trained them personally to be developers. They all became good developers, but didn't become good managers (as I didn't train them for it) in-order to form a team which can shoulder responsibility.

Once I got the hang of my company with current set up, I tried to focus more on building better product than to mitigate the risk of loosing company incase something happens to me; Unfortunately it did.

Edit: pull of -> pull off



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