单人创始人
First-hand interviews with solo founders only: how to raise $41.5M without a co-founder, how to hire, how to withstand investor bias, with specific numbers and trade-offs
47:36What Solo Founders Lack Isn't Hands, It's Someone to Make Them Tell the Truth
Julian's diagnosis of five solo founders points at almost the same thing every time: without a co-founder, you lose the person who forces you to face what you actually did today.
21:41When Investors Say They Don't Back Solo Founders, It's Usually Just a Polite No
65% of startups die of people problems, and in an early-stage company the only "people" are the co-founders — so "we don't back solo founders" is often just the easiest exit for an investor who doesn't want to say what they really mean.
1:03:27You Won't Find the Perfect Co-Founder, and the Company Only Fires at Half Power
His judgment: giving up equity just to fill a co-founder slot doesn't pay, there is no perfect partner, and without one the company only reaches half of what it could; going solo forced him to learn everything himself, which turned out to be the biggest force multiplier.
36:01Looking for a co-founder is how you end up with the wrong one
Treat a co-founder as a precondition for starting a company and you usually end up settling for a ‘co-founder of convenience’; four solo founders explain from experience that you should run on your own first, and the right person shows up along the way.