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The Co-Founder "Blood Bond" Is a Myth | Michael Grinich, WorkOS
Episode 13
Michael Grinich built WorkOS solo — now a $2B company and the enterprise infrastructure behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Replit — with no co-founder. So…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Turning Services Into Software To Move Talent To America | Minn Kim, Lighthouse
Episode 12
Minn Kim runs Lighthouse, the AI-powered immigration firm rebuilding the visa stack for frontier-tech companies. She is solo. She isn't a lawyer. Her…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
5 months 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…
5 months, 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…
5 months, 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…
5 months, 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…
5 months, 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…
6 months 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, …
6 months, 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…
6 months, 2 weeks ago