In this post, I’d like to share my experience and lessons learned around talent, motivation, and the early-stage challenges of building the Farel team. Over a year ago, I found myself accepted into YC and going through their program. My former company (Santufei) was successfully acquired and former employees were onboarded to the acquiring company (Kaspi). At that moment, I found myself in an interesting position - I had the idea for Farel, but no team. And with no team, there’s no startup. So I