HeyJaredSolo Founders
The Solo Founder's Podcast features in-depth interviews with solo founders building remarkable companies. Each week, host Julian Weisser sits down with solo founders who are either operating at serious scale or doing something right now that you need to know about.
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1M Users in 3 Months, Pivoted, Then Tripled User Count | James Clift, Durable (opens the original)
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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, bought VisualCV as a $100K legacy resume site and rebuilt it (sold 2020), then went solo at South Park Commons and founded Durable, where about 3.5 million people have signed up to start or run a business, more than half of them brand new, on a six-engineer team backed by a $14M Series A led by Spark Capital. Julian and James get into the mission ("m
Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline Ventures (opens the original)
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Dave Morin helped launch Facebook Platform, founded Path, co-founded Slow Ventures, and now runs Offline Ventures. He backed Ben Cera fifteen years before Polsia and chairs the OpenClaw Foundation. He calls himself a producer, not an investor, and makes the case that founding is a relational act: most startups fail on relationships, not product, and the only way solo founding fails is believing "solo" means alone. Topics covered: - The Alchemist, and why starting is freedom from suffering - "You
5 Solo Founders Called In With Their Hardest Problem | Solo Founders Office Hours (opens the original)
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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 1.25 million users and a few hundred paying subscribers. A data product the market "doesn't know it needs." A one-person vendor selling benchmarks to frontier AI labs. A wholesale-ordering startup whose customers keep asking for the wrong features. A robot company deciding whether the body or the brain comes first. The answers keep landing in the same
Why Investors Say "We Don't Back Solo Founders" (And What They Mean) (opens the original)
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About 65% of high-potential startups that fail die from co-founder conflict. Julian, who spent seven years matching co-founders before starting Solo Founders, answers the six questions people ask most about going solo: do you need a co-founder, is it as lonely as it sounds, who has actually done it, how do you raise money alone, do solo founders fail more, and what is "solo founder syndrome." Topics covered: - Solo founder vs co-founder: raise the bar; don't settle for a co-founder of convenienc
No Co-Founder, No Degree, $41.5M to Fix AI Data Centers | Zach Laberge, Omen (opens the original)
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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 centers and industrial machines running. He's 20, has no co-founder, and has raised $41.5M. He explains why having no technical co-founder forced him to learn spectroscopy himself, and why that made him better. Topics covered: - The shutdown test: how to know when to stop, and how to wind down well - Restarting from your strengths: $3M raised in thre
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