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Catalyst Prep Questionnaire

Welcome to Catalyst 02.

Before you start meeting everyone, we want you to spend some time thinking about how you work, what drives you, and what you're looking for in a co-founder. The founders who get the most out of Catalyst are the ones who've been honest with themselves first.

Some of the questions below you've already answered in your application. Those answers are pre-filled and you can update them if anything has changed. The rest are new.

Later in Catalyst, your answers will be shared with your work trial partner.

This takes about 30 minutes.

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Phone number

What are your dietary restrictions?

Where are you currently based? If in SF, list your neighborhood

What founding role do you see yourself in?

CEO

CTO

Open to either

Other

Which sectors would you like to found a company in? (Choose up to 3)

Where are you in your founder journey?

Share something that shows how you think about the space you're exploring. A memo, a deck, a prototype, a doc, a Loom, whatever you already have

Who you are

When you are at your best, what does that look like?

When you are at your worst, what does that look like? How do you cope with stress, and are there any red flags a co-founder should watch out for?

What is your typical working time like? Are there certain things outside of work that are important for you to make time for?

What's your Enneagram, MBTI, DISC, or other working style assessment result? How much does it resonate with you? If you haven’t taken one, you can take them here. We recommend the Enneagram; it's the most useful for understanding how you'll work with a co-founder when things get hard.

How you handle hard things

What's the harshest feedback you've received? From who? What did you do with it?

Tell us about a conflict with a colleague. How did you resolve it?

What drives you

What is the vignette in life that made you who you are?

What scares you about starting a company / another company?

Who you'd build with

Have you had a co-founder before? What did you learn?

What are you looking for in an co-founder that you can't provide yourself? What do you want your co-founder to be better at than you? What do you want to stop doing?