Silicon valley veteran here.
- First 10 at Eventbrite ($1 to $700m valuation).
- started and led Instacarts growth team.
- Founding engineer at reforge ($0 to $500m valuation).
- Recently Solo founder of a couple microsaas companies doing $1m ARR.
I'm a "CTO" who not only writes code, but does product management, marketing, analysis, sales, design, and can hire and lead teams up to 50 people (my limit).
When I look for a cofounder, I look for qualities that I don't have, like extremely good connections in the industry I want to be in, a strong following, or someone with an unfair advantage in a market.
What do you bring to the table? What makes you the best person to build this gen z game?
This will sound harsh, I'm sorry.
Market research is not good enough. I would not invest my time or money into a founder who has only done market research.
You will have to take it a step further, as /u/NWmba described in their post.