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Building Your Dream Team: Co-Founders, Hiring & Scaling

Building Your Dream Team: Co-founders, hiring, and scaling

Date
Mar 11, 2025
Time
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
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Building the perfect founder team is one of the biggest challenges in launching a startup. Should you have a co-founder? How do you balance equity vs. salary? What happens if a co-founder breakup occurs? At this live online event, part of the Quick Takes Series, FI mentors Brian Slough (MorganLewis) and Abdellah Aouf (GO Platform) will share two fresh perspectives on assembling and structuring a strong startup team. Don't miss this opportunity - Register now!

🔥 Why Attend?

Take advantage of this online opportunity to get two fresh perspectives on building your startup team in this Quick Takes Webinar. FI mentors Brian Slough from MorganLewis and Abdellah Aouf, CEO of GO Platform, will give you practical pointers and an inside peek at how the Founder Institute accelerates your startup success.  


Choosing a co-founder: What to consider, and understand if you really need a co-founder


Prioritizing hiring: How to find the right person for the right role as you scale


Breaking up: Teams grow and people move on - planning for the future


📌 Secure your spot—register today! Get this first-hand peek at how the Founder Institute Keystone accelerator assists early-stage founders in uncovering genuine insights and funding!


Featured Mentors


💥Abdellah Aouf is Chief Exponential Offers of of GO Platform, a skills- and competency-based assessment designed to improve the quality of talent within your organization. In addition to mentoring with Founder Institute chapters around the world, Abdellah is a founder of Global Shapers Hub in Algiers, a Youth Advisor for Employment at The World Bank, and a member of the Board of Advisors for Localee.work. 


💥Brian Slough serves as a trusted advisor and outside counsel to a broad array of clients on various governance and operational issues. His practice focuses on corporate governance, debt and equity offerings, majority and minority investments, private capital markets and venture investments, recapitalizations, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He advises clients from a broad variety of industries including technology, software, artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, retail, finance, and healthcare, and earned his JD from Syracuse University College of Law.  



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About Founder Institute:
The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.

Speakers

Brian

Brian Slough

Abdellah

Abdellah Aouf

Chief Executive Officer @ GO PLATFORM

Daria

Daria Duda

Product Marketing @ Consultant

Platinum Partners

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