Introduction By the time David J. Phillips refounded the company that became Fondo, he had been through four co-founder relationships across four different startups. The first one ended when he and his college co-founder moved to different cities and quietly built two separate companies doing the same thing. The second
Introduction The press was calling EVs dead. The Inflation Reduction Act incentives had just expired. Roughly $20 billion in EV investment between the OEMs and the federal government had been cancelled. Demand looked like it had been pulled forward into the prior quarter, and what remained was a vacuum. In
Introduction Two trillion dollars of economic activity flows through local government every year. City councils decide it. Planning commissions decide it. Public comment systems nobody attends decide it. And almost no founder will touch the market. This week's guest is the rare exception. Sunil is the founder and
For the first time ever, more than one in three new companies are being started solo. Five years ago, that number was under 25%. The default is quietly flipping in plain sight. This week the host becomes the guest. Julian Weisser — who spent years helping people find co-founders through On
Introduction Harvard Business School benchmarked Julius AI head-to-head against ChatGPT for its required "Data Science and AI for Leaders" MBA course. Julius won. All 935 first-year HBS students now use it to analyze data in plain English. The product has over two million users. It's backed
Yasser Elsaid's (solo founder of Chatbase) guide to sales, pricing, content, margin analysis, and more for startups.
Solo Founders Podcast — Episode 6 with Yasser Elsaid
Solo founders have a massive structural advantage that most of them are wasting: equity. When you start a company solo, you own 100% of it. No co-founder split, no 50/50, no negotiation over who gets more. According to Carta data in our State of Solo Founding report, solo founders
Many founders choose the factory, and they choose it for understandable reasons: safety in numbers, a clear set of instructions, the comfort of a recognizable path. But a factory has one purpose: to produce more of the same. If you are making Fords, more of the same is good. But
Solo Founders Podcast — Episode 5 with Daniel Francis
Elad Gil is one of the most respected investors in Silicon Valley — a solo GP with >$1B AUM and an investor in SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe, and Anduril. In a recent fireside chat, he went after one of the most persistent myths in startups: that you always need a co-founder.
Solo Founders Podcast — Episode 4 with Eugenia Kuyda