What No One Tells You About Building a Startup With Your Spouse (Our Story)

We built a startup called Linguatrip, got into 500 Startups, moved to Silicon Valley and scaled from 5 to 60 people in 6 months - all as a couple. Some investors saw this as a red flag. In 2019, we made the decision to stop working together. In this episode, we finally share why.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser
00:35 - Sharing our story
2:10 - What's up with Dmitry's English?
3:05 - Why we were so good at working together
4:10 - No one believed we could make it in Silicon Valley
when you don’t know enough, sometimes its goo
5:34 - American culture VS Russian culture
6:54 - About the company that we founded
8:44 - What I missed most about working together
9:54 - Why we stopped working together
13:35 - Advice for couples or friends starting a business together
15:05 - Some investors told us it was a red flag back then; Is it a bad idea working together?
15:46 - We went from 5 people to 60 in 6 months - advice for those who build a company right now
17:35 - What we wish we could change
18:06 - Can similar backgrounds be a liability in a startup?
20:01 - Why did Dmitry want to start a company?
22:00 - How Dmitry found a win-win for everybody
23:05 - Would we ever work together again? Our honest answer

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