{"id":3017,"date":"2014-11-04T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:36:40","slug":"what-is-nonemployeecof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-is-nonemployeecof\/","title":{"rendered":"What is #NonEmployeeCoF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">By Larry Chiang&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">Non Employee Co-Founder!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">My VC friends are sooooooo busy. They are kinda popular. And too busy to explain to you a kinda complex topic that the startup community murmurs. For example, Peter Thiel, VC and non employee co-founder of Palantir. For example Luke Nosek. Luke is non employee co-founder of PowerSet. For example Ken Howery. He&#8217;s non employee co-founder of the franchised, open-source hit: #ReverseVC. Plus, Pangaea. For example Auren Hoffman, ex Founders Fund partner who non employee co-founded two entities that were listed on his Wikipedia*<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">Note: It was via Mr Hoffman&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Summation&#8221; that I put a conscious competence to my knowledge of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">&#8220;#nonEmployeeCoF&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">As a male, heterosexual, supermodel that lectured at Harvard law to promo a book to make fun of Stanford business&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" id=\"13206A78-A0F3-498E-8A47-94F9A5CE3126\"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">Photo credit: Larry Chiang. This is &#8220;Selfie, no-self&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">[{ &#8220;#nonEmployeeCoF&#8221; }] parallels my &nbsp;&#8220;Selfie, no-self&#8221;. So here is how non employee co-foundership works.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">1\/ you mind meld with the smarter VC (in this case me) but feel free to social climb \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">2\/ you then prove that you&#8217;re decently intelligent<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">3\/ you document how you #dttdsBHM as a CS major via five &#8220;pop up internships&#8221; They&#8217;re 7 hour internships you can find via #PopUpInternship<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">4\/ you document this work in a wordpress blog. ( It&#8217;s step #15!)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image2.png\" alt=\"image.png\" id=\"3C8F7E66-4A3C-4D7D-8CAB-BAAC4FE5FDC2\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">[{ &#8220;#nonEmployeeCoF&#8221; }] parallels my @WordPress articles on &#8220;Selfie, no-self&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">It&#8217;s my #cs183X ~&gt;&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><\/p>\n<table style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px; \">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/3411684931\/bd26194fa93733b624ec22966dbdb9d9_normal.jpeg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px; \"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/529660025065967616\">11\/4\/14, 7:42 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>NEWS: new photo to the album &#8216;Selfie, no-Self E-F-F-O-R-T&#8217;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#CS183X\">#CS183X<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jfM4gKd4sl\">facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \"><span style=\"font-size: 17px; font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI'; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; \">It&#8217;s my #cs183do ~&gt; #cs183X<\/span><\/div>\n<div><font face=\".Helvetica NeueUI\"><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<table style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px; \">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/361307546\/larry-chiang9-duck9-business-card_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>CEO of Duck9, Larry (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\">@6502838008<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6502838008\/status\/528602184229740544\">11\/1\/14, 10:39 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#cs183X\">#cs183X<\/a> is all about selfie, no-self +649 other <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#hiLarryAss\">#hiLarryAss<\/a> concepts like <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#BCSeutwm\">#BCSeutwm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#GuaGuaGuacamole\">#GuaGuaGuacamole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=#wtwntyasbs\">#wtwntyasbs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3pIl3IEboQ\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/3pIl3IEboQ<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image3.png\" alt=\"image.png\" id=\"EBB7034D-E490-4878-A4E5-A64735226D18\"><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m good looking, smart, connected motivated and bored. I&#8217;m also risking a lot putting myself out there<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Non employee Co-founder is real so I&#8217;d SWALLOW it (it levers #Ch4, #Ch5 that parlays into #Ch2)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is when you do &#8220;Jay Z&#8217;s tip #4&#8221; and get a notebook. I was invited to teach for two years as stayed 3.5. Take notes on THIS<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; \">\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \">and this<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><embed width='425' height='344' allowfullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Want another Non-employee co-founder?! How about Max Levchin. He&#8217;s non employee co-founder of LinkedIn&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Note: Im friends with all these guys but the knowledge was told to me via YouTube. Public YouTube.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reid Hoffman said that about Max. It was in a y-Combinator &#8220;#startupSchool&#8221; video from 2010 (I think!). Comment below if I am correct. I know I&#8217;m correct about Max Levchin being the non-employee co-founder to LinkedIn. I just don&#8217;t know the year Reid said that PayPal story.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>FTC disclosure: I may make a million or ten even if you never pay me, enter into contract or otherwise quid pro quo. It&#8217;s part of my &#8220;ass model&#8221;. It&#8217;s a business model for ass. Not ass model like doing butt work on a film as a &#8220;butt double&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image6.jpeg\" alt=\"image.jpeg\" id=\"302B4D6F-E027-4CFC-B9CE-17E22C7E0640\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang&nbsp; Non Employee Co-Founder!!! My VC friends are sooooooo busy. They are kinda popular. And too busy to explain to you a kinda complex topic that the startup community murmurs. For example, Peter Thiel, VC and non employee co-founder of Palantir. For example Luke Nosek. Luke is non employee co-founder of PowerSet. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}