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Building a strong, well-balanced startup team is no small feat, and retaining good talent is even more challenging. That’s because nowadays there are very few “lifers” (people that stay 10-30+ years in one place) and more people who hop from job to job. An 2010 Intuit study predicts that by 2020, 40% of America’s workforce will be contract, temporary, or self-employed workers. On top of that trend, co-founder relationships remain tenuous. Currently, co-founder conflict is the number-one startup killer; 65% of startups fail due to co-founder strife, according to Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor.