solo founder

“We don't accept that many proportionally to the numbers that apply because there's so much to do in a startup.”

“Yes, we fund solo founders, like tons of them every batch.”

“Honestly, being, you know a solo founder is, is better and less distracting than having a complicated or, you know, fraught co-founder relationship.”

“So we funded solo founders you know, and some of them have done really well, but overall we've seen this pattern where it's just so hard as a solo founder.”

“I would not try and start a startup just with just myself as the founder. I don't think I could do it.”

“I think the hardest part is morale. There's no one, there's, like, if you have multiple people, they keep one another going when things are going badly, and there's no one to cheer you up.”

“In the early days, what I say for single founders is, you kind of have, like, if you're swimming in the ocean, it's kind of like a net buoy system, so you have to find, like, three or six people that are, like, those orange buoys, and you're swimming by yourse…”

“And then now it's like, actually what would take a week or a month or a year, like you literally do in, you know, minutes, hours, or, you know, at the worst, like you could build a whole cathedral of like 20 to 40,000 lines of code. Like what would take a typi…”