I can't offer specific advice, I can only tell you that drinking didn't help for me. It resulted in me being less sharp, and generally made things more difficult. I found it easiest if everyone else was drinking and I remained sober.
If your co-founder is more socially adept observe them and watch what they do. Ask them questions, be up front, maybe they can offer what they think is trivial, but for you pivotal advice.
One thing that always works for me is to ask "can you explain to me" type questions specific to that persons profession or interest. If it's a model ask about what it's like to be a model, do they like any specific work over another, how'd they get into the buisnes etc... there are hundreds of little questions about any profession/topic that I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer to. About that one topic they know more than you, let them educate you.
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I can't offer specific advice, I can only tell you that drinking didn't help for me. It resulted in me being less sharp, and generally made things more difficult. I found it easiest if everyone else was drinking and I remained sober.
If your co-founder is more socially adept observe them and watch what they do. Ask them questions, be up front, maybe they can offer what they think is trivial, but for you pivotal advice.
One thing that always works for me is to ask "can you explain to me" type questions specific to that persons profession or interest. If it's a model ask about what it's like to be a model, do they like any specific work over another, how'd they get into the buisnes etc... there are hundreds of little questions about any profession/topic that I'm genuinely interested in knowing the answer to. About that one topic they know more than you, let them educate you.