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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.
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Paul Bakaus created jQuery UI, sold a startup to Zynga, and spent nearly a decade at Google — then went solo to prove one experienced builder, amplified by AI, can do what used to take a team. His company Renaissance Gee
Everyone thinks going solo means answering to no one. Six solo founders behind WorkOS, Fondo, Plug, Lighthouse, Hamlet, and Julius AI say the opposite: you have more bosses, not fewer, and the job is convincing all of th
Claire Vo runs ChatPRD — an AI "Chief Product Officer" for over 100k product managers — as the only full-time human, bootstrapped, with zero venture capital. The twist: she operates the company with a staff of nine named
Today we're launching Solo Grants: $100–$1,000 grants, 100% no strings attached, for people building technically ambitious projects solo. Julian sits down with Ari Dutilh who leads the program and is a former grantee him
Thais Castello Branco left the AI search company Exa, raised $18.5M, and built Taste Labs -- the "taste layer for AI" -- solo, with one mission: end AI slop. She and Julian go deep on what taste actually is (and why it i
Flo Crivello raised about $50M as a solo founder, then watched the market kill the company he'd built. Instead of quitting, he cut deep, pivoted, and rebuilt alone into Lindy — one of the top AI agent startups. This is a
Francis Davidson built Sonder into a multi-billion-dollar company, took it public, was pushed out as CEO, and watched it collapse. The same month he left, he started over — this time solo, building Odessia, an AI travel
Dhravya Shah sold his first company at 16 and raised $3M at 19 as the solo founder of Supermemory, the open-source memory and context layer for AI agents (now past 26k GitHub stars and 1M+ SDK downloads). The twist: he n
A $300M company. 30M+ users. Tens of millions in revenue, some raised and some bootstrapped from zero. Software that saves lives. Five founders, zero co-founders. Julian connects the dots across the first six episodes of
Michael Grinich built WorkOS solo — now a $2B company and the enterprise infrastructure behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Replit — with no co-founder. So when he says "it's not the blood bond it was made out to be," it lands
Minn Kim runs Lighthouse, the AI-powered immigration firm rebuilding the visa stack for frontier-tech companies. She is solo. She isn't a lawyer. Her first two hires were engineers. The conversation with Julian covers ho
David J. Phillips tried co-founders four times before he went solo. With $40,000 left in the bank after a stalled aquihire, he refounded the company alone — and built Fondo, the accounting platform now used by hundreds o
The press was declaring the EV car market dead. Roughly $20B in EV investment had been cancelled. The Inflation Reduction Act had just expired. In that environment, Jimmy Douglas raised a $20M Series A from Lightspeed. B
Two trillion dollars of GDP flows through local government every year. 90%+ of city council votes are pre-decided before the meeting starts. And almost no founder will touch the market. Sunil is the rare exception. He ra
For the first time ever, more than one in three new companies are being started solo. Five years ago that number was under 25%. This week the host becomes the guest: Julian Weisser — founder of Solo Founders, former co-f
Rahul Sonwalker is the solo founder and CEO of Julius AI — the natural-language data analysis platform that took six pivots (and one cease-and-desist from Microsoft for calling a product "Excel Copilot") to find. In this
Yasser Elsaid was in his last semester of university when he spotted an opportunity most people dismissed: adding custom data to large language models, before ChatGPT even launched. He built the first version of Chatbase
Daniel Francis dropped out of high school, taught himself to code at a DC nonprofit, impersonated a laid-off Twitter employee to work for Elon Musk, and then built Abel Police — AI software that generates police reports
Eugenia Kuyda has spent over a decade building at the frontier of AI consumer products. First by founding Replika in 2014, hitting 30M users in conversational AI before ChatGPT even existed. Now, building Wabi: giving ev
Charles Hudson is the founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, where he's invested in over 500 companies as a solo GP. He shares a data point that challenges the co-founder consensus: 25-30% of his portfolio c
Charles Hudson
Managing Partner and Founder · Precursor Ventures
2 appearances on this show
Daniel Francis
Assistant Professor of Law · NYU Law School
2 appearances on this show
Jimmy Douglas
Founder & CEO · Plug
1 appearance on this show
Ben Cera
Polsia
2 appearances on this show
Eugenia Kuyda
Replika
1 appearance on this show
Paul Klein IV
Browserbase
2 appearances on this show
Yasser Elsaid
Chatbase
1 appearance on this show
Michael Grinich
WorkOS
1 appearance on this show
Minn Kim
Lighthouse
1 appearance on this show
David J. Phillips
Fondo
2 appearances on this show
Julian Weisser
Solo Founders
1 appearance on this show
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