Sam Altman on the leading causes of conflict in a founding team

“The two times you get conflict in a startup is when people want different things for the company or they want the same things for themselves… when they both want to be CEO and have their face on the magazine cover, that conflict is actually the worst one and gets really nasty.”

He continues:

“What you really want are complimentary teams where the people have the same vision for the kind of company that they want to build and they bring very different skills to the table.”

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak is the example he uses to illustrate this idea:

Full video: Greylock “Blitzscaling 02: Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders” (Sep 2015)