Co-founding Jexida taught me more about partnerships in eighteen months than a decade of corporate work taught me about politics. Here's what nobody tells you about choosing the person you're going to share the cap table with.
I'm going to keep some specifics out of this post. Not because there's anything ugly to hide — there isn't — but because the lessons generalize better when they're stripped of the particular incidents that taught them. If you want the gossip, you're in the wrong place. If you want the patterns, keep reading.
## What Jexida is
Jexida is a tech company I co-founded after leaving CVS. The product I'm not going to describe in detail here, but the …