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She Built Facebook's First Assistant. Now She's Betting Against Full Autonomy | Shivani Poddar, Wajo
Episode 34
Shivani Poddar led engineering on Google DeepMind's autonomous coding agent. Then she went solo to build Fo — the personal agent whose viral launch a…
18 hours ago
He Sold His Dad's Shoes on eBay at 12. At 25 He Built a $4B Company Solo. | Ali Ansari, micro1
Episode 33
Ali Ansari never had a co-founder - he didn't know they existed. In this episode, the micro1 founder tells Julian how he went from selling his dad's …
1 week ago
No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, Ando
Episode 32
Sara Du co-founded Alloy Automation at 19 and ran it for five and a half years. Her second company, Ando, she's building solo: team messaging designe…
2 weeks ago
1M Users in 3 Months, Pivoted, Then Tripled User Count | James Clift, Durable
Episode 31
James Clift hasn't been employed by a company he didn't own since he was sixteen. He paid for a year of university with a window-cleaning business, b…
3 weeks ago
Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline Ventures
Episode 30
Dave Morin helped launch Facebook Platform, founded Path, co-founded Slow Ventures, and now runs Offline Ventures. He backed Ben Cera fifteen years b…
4 weeks ago
5 Solo Founders Called In With Their Hardest Problem | Solo Founders Office Hours
Episode 29
Five solo founders brought their hardest current problem to a live office hours, and Julian worked each one in real time. An open-source app with 1.2…
1 month ago
Why Investors Say "We Don't Back Solo Founders" (And What They Mean)
Episode 28
About 65% of high-potential startups that fail die from co-founder conflict. Julian, who spent seven years matching co-founders before starting Solo …
1 month, 1 week ago
No Co-Founder, No Degree, $41.5M to Fix AI Data Centers | Zach Laberge, Omen
Episode 27
Zach Laberge dropped out of high school to build his first company. His second, Omen AI, puts real-time sensors inside the fluids that keep AI data c…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Searching For A Co-Founder Is How You Get A Bad One | 4 VC-Backed Solo Founders
Episode 26
It's been a year since the Solo Founders Program kicked off. Today, the first cohort sits down to discuss building solo, together.
What a year of buil…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Non-Technical, No Co-Founder, $100M+ Raised | John Glasgow, Campfire
Episode 25
John Glasgow is the anti-pattern founder: non-technical, 36 when he started, a newborn at home during Y Combinator, and solo after his co-founder lef…
2 months ago