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Fired by His Own Co-Founder, Then Built the #1 Startup Accounting Platform | David Phillips, Fondo
Episode 11
David J. Phillips tried co-founders four times before he went solo. With $40,000 left in the bank after a stalled aquihire, he refounded the company …
7 hours ago
He Quit Tesla, Pivoted GTM 14 Times, Raised $20M Solo | Jimmy Douglas, Plug
Episode 10
The press was declaring the EV car market dead. Roughly $20B in EV investment had been cancelled. The Inflation Reduction Act had just expired. In th…
1 week ago
The Secret $2 Trillion Market Founders Are Ignoring | Sunil Rajaraman, Hamlet
Episode 9
Two trillion dollars of GDP flows through local government every year. 90%+ of city council votes are pre-decided before the meeting starts. And almo…
2 weeks ago
Do You Really Need A Co-Founder? With Julian Weisser (Solo Founders)
Episode 8
For the first time ever, more than one in three new companies are being started solo. Five years ago that number was under 25%. This week the host be…
3 weeks ago
He Quit Uber, Beat ChatGPT At Harvard, And Went Solo Building AI | Rahul Sonwalkar
Episode 7
Rahul Sonwalker is the solo founder and CEO of Julius AI — the natural-language data analysis platform that took six pivots (and one cease-and-desist…
4 weeks ago
$9M ARR, Zero Investors: Yasser Elsaid on Bootstrapping Chatbase as a Solo Founder
Episode 6
Yasser Elsaid was in his last semester of university when he spotted an opportunity most people dismissed: adding custom data to large language model…
1 month ago
Elon Fired Him, Now His AI Writes Every Police Report | Daniel Francis (Abel Police)
Episode 5
Daniel Francis dropped out of high school, taught himself to code at a DC nonprofit, impersonated a laid-off Twitter employee to work for Elon Musk, …
1 month, 1 week ago
30M Users, No Co-Founder | Eugenia Kuyda (Replika, Wabi)
Episode 4
Eugenia Kuyda has spent over a decade building at the frontier of AI consumer products. First by founding Replika in 2014, hitting 30M users in conve…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
How To Fundraise As A Solo Founder | Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures)
Episode 3
Charles Hudson is the founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, where he's invested in over 500 companies as a solo GP. He shares a data po…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
From 498 Rejections to a $300M Company | Paul Klein IV (Browserbase)
Episode 2
Paul Klein IV applied to 500 internships and got rejected from 498. Now he's the solo founder of Browserbase – a headless browser infrastructure comp…
2 months ago