Podcast · 32 episodes
Solo Founders
by Solo Founders · English
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. From Series B and beyond to founders breaking out in real-time, these are the conversations that define what it means to build solo. New episodes every week.
Latest episodes
No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, AndoSolo founder reflections and how to build a “Slack replacement” for AI agents.30 Sep 2026 · 1 h 15 min
1M Users in 3 Months, Pivoted, Then Tripled User Count | James Clift, DurableDurable’s growth and mission to make owning a business easier than having a job, using AI to automate marketing, customer acquisition, customer success, and operations for service businesses.24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline VenturesSolo founding vs co-founders; why relationships determine startup outcomes; entrepreneurship as an art/creative collaboration; how modern tools (YouTube, ChatGPT, AI agents) make solo founding…16 Sep 2026 · 58 min
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No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, AndoSolo founder reflections and how to build a “Slack replacement” for AI agents.30 Sep 2026 · 1 h 15 min · 33 chapters
1M Users in 3 Months, Pivoted, Then Tripled User Count | James Clift, DurableDurable’s growth and mission to make owning a business easier than having a job, using AI to automate marketing, customer acquisition, customer success, and operations for service businesses.24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 16 min · 26 chapters
Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline VenturesSolo founding vs co-founders; why relationships determine startup outcomes; entrepreneurship as an art/creative collaboration; how modern tools (YouTube, ChatGPT, AI agents) make solo founding…16 Sep 2026 · 58 min · 22 chapters
5 Solo Founders Called In With Their Hardest Problem | Solo Founders Office HoursSolo founders office hours—four founders share their hardest problems and get feedback on monetization, go-to-market, solo execution, and product sequencing.9 Sep 2026 · 48 min · 21 chapters
Why Investors Say "We Don't Back Solo Founders" (And What They Mean)Investors’ objections to “solo founders,” and why the episode argues solo founding can be viable (even default), while warning about loneliness, hiring, and fundraising dynamics.2 Sep 2026 · 22 min · 6 chapters
No Co-Founder, No Degree, $41.5M to Fix AI Data Centers | Zach Laberge, OmenSolo founding and pivoting from construction/engine failure prediction to hydraulic fluid monitoring and then to AI data center liquid cooling; also covers fundraising without a co-founder and…26 Aug 2026 · 1 h 3 min · 20 chapters
Searching For A Co-Founder Is How You Get A Bad One | 4 VC-Backed Solo FoundersOne-year anniversary of the Solo Founders Program (SFP). Guests discuss what solo founding is like early on, why “searching for a co-founder” can lead to bad matches, and how “solo together” provides…19 Aug 2026 · 36 min · 16 chapters
Non-Technical, No Co-Founder, $100M+ Raised | John Glasgow, CampfireSolo founding and “right to win,” plus enterprise/government sales mechanics, burnout, and how John Glasgow’s background shaped Campfire.12 Aug 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 28 chapters
Why PostHog's 6th Employee Went Solo | Yakko Majuri, RailcodeAI-native internal software—companies giving everyone Claude/Code but still blocking internal app deployment via DevOps/security approvals; RailCode offers a secure, permissioned environment to build…5 Aug 2026 · 30 min · 14 chapters
AI Can Build Your App. It Can't Make It Good. | Paul Bakaus, ImpeccableAI for app building, but with a human role for quality; solo founding; and “Impeccable,” an AI agent skill that improves design output and reduces “AI slop” by enforcing design systems.29 Jul 2026 · 1 h 22 min · 30 chapters
What It Actually Takes To Build a Startup Solo | 6 VC-Backed Successful Solo FoundersSolo startup founding requirements—why “solo” doesn’t mean working without listening, the need for original insights, convincing investors/employees/customers, when to break “orthodoxy,” how solo…22 Jul 2026 · 21 min · 11 chapters
She Staffed Her 100k-User Startup With AI Agents | Claire Vo, ChatPRDClaire Vo (ChatPRD) explains how she bootstrapped ChatPRD into a ~100k-user startup by using multiple AI agents (marketing, EA, sales, support) while staying the only full-time employee/owner.15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 25 chapters
How To Get $1,000 For Your Project, No Strings Attached | Solo GrantsLaunch of Solo Grants, a “no strings attached” micro-grant program for technically ambitious solo passion projects (often not startups).8 Jul 2026 · 37 min · 16 chapters
She Raised $18M Solo to Kill AI Slop | Thais Castello Branco, Taste LabsTaste Labs’ mission to prevent “AI slop” by teaching models to produce context-appropriate, high-quality, diverse outputs rather than monoculture-looking results.1 Jul 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 30 chapters
Going Solo Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception | Flo Crivello, LindySolo founding vs co-founding; why co-founder breakups are common and can kill early startups; how to decide when to go solo, and how to pivot from one company to another.24 Jun 2026 · 46 min · 22 chapters
His Public Company Blew Up. He Came Back Solo. | Francis Davidson, OdessiaFrancis Davidson recounts the rise and collapse of Sonder, then explains why he returned as a solo founder to build Odessia, an AI travel-planning product.17 Jun 2026 · 59 min · 22 chapters
Sold a Company at 16, Raised $3M at 19 | Dhravya Shah, SupermemoryDhravya Shah’s journey from building open-source “Any Context” as a college student to founding Supermemory, then evolving it into a B2B “context cloud” infrastructure for AI agents.11 Jun 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 22 chapters
I Asked 5 Massively Successful Founders Why They Went SoloA host reflects on prior Solo Founders podcast conversations, drawing lines between how successful solo founders use AI, maintain culture/clarity, choose between solo vs co-founding, build from…3 Jun 2026 · 21 min · 7 chapters
The Co-Founder "Blood Bond" Is a Myth | Michael Grinich, WorkOSMichael Grinich (WorkOS) argues that the “blood bond” myth of co-founders is overstated; most multi-cofounder teams end with one person still running the company.27 May 2026 · 1 h 11 min · 21 chapters
Turning Services Into Software To Move Talent To America | Minn Kim, LighthouseMinn Kim (Lighthouse) explains how Lighthouse turns immigration “professional services” into software-like workflows to speed visa processes for frontier tech companies hiring rare global talent, and…20 May 2026 · 57 min · 22 chapters
Fired by His Own Co-Founder, Then Built the #1 Startup Accounting Platform | David Phillips, FondoDavid Phillips (Fondo) discusses solo founding after multiple co-founder breakups, including how he pivoted a nearly failed company (Bloomjoy) into Fondo, how to handle emotional/legal cap-table…13 May 2026 · 52 min · 17 chapters
He Quit Tesla, Pivoted GTM 14 Times, Raised $20M Solo | Jimmy Douglas, PlugJimmy Douglas (Plug) explains leaving Tesla, building a solo-founded startup, and how Plug found product-market fit by invalidating assumptions and running 14 go-to-market pivots.6 May 2026 · 1 h 9 min · 26 chapters
The Secret $2 Trillion Market Founders Are Ignoring | Sunil Rajaraman, HamletHamlet’s mission is to make local government easy to understand by summarizing city council/commission meetings and using LLMs to explain what residents actually need to know.29 Apr 2026 · 55 min · 25 chapters
Do You Really Need A Co-Founder? With Julian Weisser (Solo Founders)Whether startups “need” co-founders; argues co-founders often increase failure risk, while solo founding is increasingly viable.22 Apr 2026 · 50 min · 21 chapters