I am wondering what others think… some podcast says “to want a cofounder so that you get a free software engineer is the wrong motivation”. Ideally I would want funds to hire a senior developer to help with prototyping a solution. An alternative would be to hire a cofounder to do that… as a “free software engineer”, which would actually be extremely expensive in terms of equity.
What do others think? Can a full time senior developer start and lead the development of an MVP?
All about the people. Don’t think of a skillset or title equates to leadership and project management. You can be a skilled developer and a founder and ruin a good project. Food for thought when evaluating who to bring on.