For decades, solo founders have faced a hard reality in fundraising: most investors simply wouldn't back them. As Paul Klein IV from Browserbase puts it: "In the past, a key reason not to be a solo founder was the belief that investors wouldn't back you.
For decades, the conventional beliefs have been clear: you need a co-founder. Y Combinator practically mandates it. VCs view solo founders with the same suspicion they reserved for some hardware startups or edtech companies. A founder flying solo is a often considered red flag, a sign of someone who couldn&
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"2020, running out of money, solo founder, HQ in my makeshift bathroom office. Little did I know Polymarket was going to change the world." Can you predict the future? Shayne Coplan bets that we all can. The NYSE's parent co certainly thinks so, investing $2B in
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Six years ago, Jan Oberhauser was a solo founder in Berlin, frustrated by the complexity of workflow automation. He was hacking away on a side project. Today, that side project is now a European unicorn with a $180 million Series C announcement fresh off the press. n8n’s valuation jumped
