Oct 28, 20261h 13m
AI agents now write the code, review it and write the tests. Chai Choudhary, solo founder of Workers IO, is building the proof layer that shows whether any of it works. A conversation about why "nobody's buying code"...
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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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What is Solo Founders about?
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.
What has Solo Founders covered recently?
Recent episodes include "He Learned to Code on Paper. Now He's Fixing the Internet. | Chai Choudhary, Workers" (28 October 2026, 73 minutes), "The Cure to Founder Burnout Isn't Rest | 6 Solo Founders" (21 October 2026, 23 minutes), and "She Built Facebook's First Assistant. Now She's Betting Against Full Autonomy | Shivani Poddar, Wajo" (14 October 2026, 58 minutes).
How often does Solo Founders publish?
Solo Founders publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes.
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Booking probability for Solo Founders is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Solo Founders requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Solo Founders's contact route on record: verified email.
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Oct 21, 202623 minSix solo founders on the question underneath every startup: how do you choose a company you'll still want to be running in ten years? Julian revisits conversations with Dhravya Shah (Supermemory), Francis Davidson...
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She Built Facebook's First Assistant. Now She's Betting Against Full Autonomy | Shivani Poddar, Wajo
Oct 14, 202658 minShivani Poddar led engineering on Google DeepMind's autonomous coding agent. Then she went solo to build Fo — the personal agent whose viral launch admitted what no AI lab will: AI often can't finish the job alone, so...
Sep 30, 20261h 15mSara Du co-founded Alloy Automation at 19 and ran it for five and a half years. Her second company, Ando, she's building solo: team messaging designed from scratch for humans and AI agents working together, freshly out...
Sep 24, 20261h 16mJames Clift hasn't been employed by a company he didn't own since he was sixteen. He paid for a year of university with a window-cleaning business, bought VisualCV as a $100K legacy resume site and rebuilt it (sold...
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Sep 16, 202658 minDave Morin helped launch Facebook Platform, founded Path, co-founded Slow Ventures, and now runs Offline Ventures. He backed Ben Cera fifteen years before Polsia and chairs the OpenClaw Foundation. He calls himself a...
Sep 9, 202648 minFive solo founders brought their hardest current problem to a live office hours, and Julian worked each one in real time. An open-source app with 1.25 million users and a few hundred paying subscribers. A data product...
Sep 2, 202622 minAbout 65% of high-potential startups that fail die from co-founder conflict. Julian, who spent seven years matching co-founders before starting Solo Founders, answers the six questions people ask most about going solo...
Aug 26, 20261h 3mZach Laberge dropped out of high school to build his first company. His second, Omen AI, puts real-time sensors inside the fluids that keep AI data centers and industrial machines running. He's 20, has no co-founder...
Aug 19, 202636 minIt's been a year since the Solo Founders Program kicked off. Today, the first cohort sits down to discuss building solo, together. What a year of building taught them: why retention is growth (the smile curve, and the...
Jul 29, 20261h 22mPaul 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...
Jul 22, 202621 minEveryone 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...
Jul 15, 20261h 5mClaire 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...
Jul 8, 202637 minToday 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...
Jul 1, 20261h 8mThais 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...
Jun 24, 202646 minFlo 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...
Jun 17, 202659 minFrancis 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...
Jun 11, 20261h 13mDhravya 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...
Jun 3, 202621 minS0<p>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.</p><p>Julian connects the dots across the first six...
May 27, 20261h 11mS0<p>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...
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