A five-minute founder conversation game
Co-founder Conversations
You and two friends are building LunchLoop, a campus lunch preorder venture. The pilot has started. Now the hard conversations begin.
Choose what you say in six moments involving workload, equity, product direction, accountability, funding, and changing commitments. Watch what happens to team trust, role clarity, and momentum.
Fictional learning scenario · About 5–7 minutes · Your progress stays on this device
Your founding team
MAYou
Maya builds the product. Arif handles operations. You lead the venture. Each person sees a different risk, and each has a stake in what happens next.
Trust: can people speak honestly?
Clarity: do people know who decides and delivers?
Momentum: can the venture keep moving?
LunchLoop · FoundersMaya, Arif, and you
● onlineHow do you respond?
Six conversations later
Your responses
Bring this to class
Choose one conversation you would handle differently in a real venture. What would you say, who should decide, and how would you know the agreement is working?