Hays: Stripe data shows $1M+ solopreneurs doubled between 2023 and 2025
“An analysis by the payments company Stripe, Tyler, look up Stripe, shows there are thousands of solo operators on the company's platform that are generating over one million in revenue, with their ranks doubling between 20 23 and 20 25.”
Broshi: Bootstrapped chatbot builders cannot compete long-term with VC-backed startups
“There is no way they're going to be able to compete long-term with the VC backed startup. It's just not going to happen.”
US business formation growth comes entirely from non-employer solopreneurs
“And the incremental growth is coming entirely from non-employer firms is the literal language that the Census Bureau uses, but you and I would just call them solopreneurs.”
Tech Entering Era of Enterprise-Scale Solopreneurs and Mom-and-Pop SaaS
“I really truly believe that we're going to be entering the era of solopreneurs and running companies that are almost mid-market, potentially even enterprise size-like, as well as the really long tail of really small
What I would almost call mom and pop sass of…”
Yang: Workforce will transition from mega-corporations to solopreneurs and smaller firms
“I feel like there's gonna be a transition from, like, these, like, 10,000 plus people companies. Laying a lot of people off to hopefully, like, more smaller companies like solopreneurs and stuff like that.”
Verna: A solo entrepreneur will eventually build a billion-dollar company
“I truly believe there's going to be a company of a billion dollar company running solo by some, by somebody.”
Cuban: 30 Million of 33 Million US Businesses Are Solopreneurs Lacking AI Budgets
“There are thirty three million companies in this country. Thirty million of them are solopreneurs, right? Single person enterprises. There are only, you know, there are millions of companies that have one, five, 10, 50, a 105 hundred people that aren't going t…”
Coogan: Shopify Report Shows AI Solopreneurs Launch 70% Faster
“A 20, 24 Shopify report showed AI enabled solopreneurs launched businesses 70% faster than peers without a tool, without AI tools.”
Loeffler: AI will create millions of software and manufacturing solopreneurs
“We're gonna create millions of solopreneurs who are gonna have massive software companies or manufacturing companies thanks to AI.”
Some Investors Reject Solo Founders, But None Reject Co-Founding Teams
“There's some that say they don't invest in solopreneurs, and then there's none that say they don't invest in co-founders. So there's definitely an advantage to that.”
Mooney: Mangomint does not sell to solo salon operators
“Our SMB would be solo providers. So this is someone who rents a booth and runs their own business, the solopreneur. We do not sell to them. So for us, mid-market looks like a mom and pop shop. That has five or more staff members, and this is going to be up to,…”
Isenberg: Every solopreneur's goal should be to stop being a solopreneur
“I actually think that the goal of every solopreneur should be to not be a solopreneur. Like, I actually think that just doing things on your own is, like, super lonely, and you're, everything, everything is dependent on you, and that's not very, that, that to …”
Rush: The indie hacker movement is doubling every year
“This movement was very small. Like it was very few people like three, two years ago, but I think it's doubling every year. Like I don't have the count, but my feeling that it's at least doubling and will keep growing just because we see that the access to buil…”
Isenberg predicts a huge wave of holdco 'multipreneurs' over five years
“I think there's going to be a huge wave of successful multipreneurs over the next five years, just like over the last couple of years, you start to see the wave of solopreneurs all over.”
Isenberg: Operating as a Solopreneur Leads to Burnout Within a Year
“Solopreneurs equals solo burnouts. Think you're a one man slash woman army. Cool. Give it a year. You'll be so fried. You'll hire a team just to get a day off.”
Solopreneurs Require Enterprise-Level Onboarding But Churn Quickly From Growth Assistant
“A lot of the stuff that came from Twitter were people who were one to five person companies, You know, solopreneurs, which I don't have anything against solopreneurs, but they would tend to bring someone on. They don't have the time to actually manage them. An…”
Isenberg: Founders should target super-niches rather than fear competitors
“Find your super niche, like don't find your niche, find your super niche and go to this like smaller niche. Create something purpose built, and don't worry that there might be a hundred more general purpose competitors out there.”
Solopreneurs avoid standard logo churn by starting new gigs after failures
“These people don't churn, logo churn, like other mid-market products, because if the person fails, and we really want to think about this in this fashion, if this person's business fails, they're still a person. They still have a side gig. It's not like they b…”