Choosing your best-friend isn't a guarantee that you won't have co-founder issues either. One of you has to be the CEO, and if you are both used to being equals, the one who isn't CEO has to deal with the fact that their role is less than the CEO.
There will be times where the demands for your time will be greater than theirs, and vice versa, and if one of you is strongly technical, while the other isn't, you may see an imbalance of work, especially when you're building your MVP.
Business & startups in particular, come with an enormous amount of stress, and may put you two at odds with each other, which can be tough, as the two of you, under different circumstances, might have been each others coping mechanism.
There will be times where the demands for your time will be greater than theirs, and vice versa, and if one of you is strongly technical, while the other isn't, you may see an imbalance of work, especially when you're building your MVP.
Business & startups in particular, come with an enormous amount of stress, and may put you two at odds with each other, which can be tough, as the two of you, under different circumstances, might have been each others coping mechanism.