{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"No Co-Founder, No Degree, $41.5M to Fix AI Data Centers | Zach Laberge, Omen","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3dca6ae3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3807,"description":"Zach 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, and has raised $41.5M. He explains why having no technical co-founder forced him to learn spectroscopy himself, and why that made him better.\nTopics covered:\n- The shutdown test: how to know when to stop, and how to wind down well\n- Restarting from your strengths: $3M raised in three days from the buyers who'd said no\n- Customer-led pivots: engines to hydraulics to AI data-center coolant\n- Being six months early, and the bitcoin miner who laughed\n- Founding teams without co-founders; resetting the team at the seed\n- Fundraising in a concentrated market: \"the best round is when you're not raising\"\n- Advisors: weekly 1:1s and templated equity\n- The bear case and the bull case for solo founding\nGuest: Zach Laberge — founder & CEO of Omen AI (omen.ai), real-time fluid intelligence for AI data centers and industrial machines.\nThe advisor equity template Zach mentions: Founder Institute's FAST agreement, https://fi.co/fast","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Mj10Aagf8Fn8vlPjgqrVjy6o35AHmBKx1tPfNCCPiYo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWE2/Y2E3NGM5MjYxYmQ1/Njk2YjU5YTlkMmMw/OTZmYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}