Solo Founders
Read bullet-point summaries of Solo Founders on building without cofounders, fundraising, AI products, founder psychology, and startup strategy.
Episodes
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She Raised $18M Solo to Kill AI Slop | Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs
This episode explores Thais Castello Branco's journey founding Taste Labs, a company aiming to solve AI's lack of "taste" by training models to produce nuanced
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Going Solo Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception | Flo Crivello, Lindy
Flo Crivello is the solo founder of Lindy, an AI executive assistant that manages email, meetings, and inbox chaos for busy professionals. He previously
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He Took a Company Public. It Blew Up. He Came Back Solo. | Francis Davidson, Odessia
Francis Davidson started Sonder at 19, grew it into a multi-billion-dollar hospitality company with ~1,000 employees, took it public, was forced out by the
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Sold a Company at 16, Raised $3M at 19 | Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
Dhravya Shah sold his first company at 16, raised $3M at 19 as a solo founder for Supermemory — an open-source memory and context layer for AI agents with 26K+
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I Asked 5 Massively Successful Founders Why They Went Solo
This episode is a curated retrospective of the Solo Founders podcast, where host Arya pulls together key clips from previous conversations with solo founders
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The Co-Founder "Blood Bond" Is a Myth | Michael Grinich, WorkOS
Michael Grinich is the solo founder of Work OS, a company that helps SaaS startups become enterprise-ready, now in its year eight with nearly 120 employees and
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Turning Services Into Software To Move Talent To America | Minn Kim, Lighthouse
Minn Kim is the founder of Lighthouse, a company that uses software and workflow automation to help frontier technology companies bring top global talent to the
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4 Co-Founders Failed Him. Then He Built a $66M Company Solo. | David Phillips, Fondo
David Phillips built Fondo, a $66M bookkeeping and accounting company for startups, as a solo founder after four previous co-founder breakups across earlier
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He Left Tesla, Pivoted 14 Times, Raised $20M Solo | Jimmy Douglas, Plug
Jimmy Douglas left Tesla after five years to build Plug, a marketplace for used electric vehicles, as a solo founder — and the company has since grown to
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Do You Really Need A Co-Founder? with Julian Weisser (Solo Founders)
Julian Weiser, founder of Solo Founders and former creator of On Deck's ODF (On Deck Founders), argues that the startup industry's default assumption—that you
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He Quit Uber, Beat ChatGPT At Harvard, And Went Solo Building AI | Rahul Sonwalkar
Rahul Sonwalkar is the solo founder of Julius AI, an AI data analyst that Harvard Business School benchmarked head-to-head against ChatGPT and selected for its
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He Skipped Investors, Skipped the Co-Founder, and Built $9M/yr AI Company | Yasser Elsaid, Chatbase
Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase to $9 million ARR in three years as a solo bootstrapped founder, starting from his last semester of university in Canada. He
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Elon Fired Him, Now His AI Writes Every Police Report | Daniel Francis (Abel Police)
Daniel Francis is the solo founder of Able, an AI-powered software platform that writes police reports from body camera footage, saving officers roughly
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30M Users, No Co-Founder | Eugenia Kuyda (Replika, Wabi)
Eugenia Kuyda is a solo founder who built Replika, an AI companion app that reached 30 million users, and is now building Wabi, a platform for creating
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How To Fundraise As A Solo Founder with Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures)
Charles Hudson, a solo GP at Precursor Ventures who has invested in over 500 companies, makes a detailed case for why solo founding is underrated and why the
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From 500 Rejections to a $300M Company: Paul Klein IV on Solo Founding Browserbase
Paul Klein IV went from facing 498 rejections out of 500 internship applications to founding Browserbase, a headless browser infrastructure company now valued
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1.5M ARR, Zero (Human) Employees | Ben Cera (Polsia)
Ben Cera is building Polsia, a one-person company run almost entirely by AI agents, where he acts as a "creative director" guiding an autonomous team of AI
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Introducing the Solo Founders Podcast
Introducing the Solo Founders Podcast — Julian, founder of the Solo Founders program, announces the launch of a new podcast (name still undecided) aimed at solo
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Solo, Together — Solo Founders Program
The Solo Founders Program, launched by Solo Together in May, is a six-week cohort-based experience designed to address the specific, underappreciated challenges
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Introducing Solo Founders Program and Community
OWL is launching the Solo Founders Program (SFP) to support solo founders, who are often underestimated in the startup ecosystem despite being capable of
