If you’re deciding whether or not to join a start-up, it can be hard to know what you’re getting into. You can’t look at years of history. You can’t check out the company’s stock prices. You probably can’t even read reviews on Glassdoor.

Instead, you’ll need to take a good, hard look at the founder you’ll be working with. This panel teaches you how to properly assess a founder at an early stage start-up. Do they have what it takes to grow their company? Are they making healthy decisions that will keep the company financially healthy? Are they visionary… or trying to sell you some snake oil?