# How To Navigate Co-Founder Disputes

**Author:** Y Combinator
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/MI-how-to-navigate-co-founder-disputes
**YouTube ID:** bvjyaz4ZiVI

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Technical skills build startups—but oftentimes, people skills can save them. So how do you navigate the disagreements
and conflict that inevitably arise with a co-founder? In this episode of the Lightcone, our hosts share what they've
learned for managing these critical, yet often overlooked challenges, offering advice on how to handle the messy
realities that go beyond building.

