Priya Nair

My best engineer said no to me for three years

I asked Dev to cofound with me in 2019. No. Again in 2020. No. In 2021, with a term sheet in hand: still no. Each time he said the same thing: "You don't need a cofounder. You need to believe you can do the first year alone." — He joined in year four — as employee eight, exactly when a person like…