{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"$20M Run Rate, Zero Co-Founders | Ben Cera, Polsia","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4fa7acd0\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2617,"description":"Ben Cera was our very first guest, back when Polsia had just crossed $1.5M in annualized revenue. About seven months later, Polsia had passed a $20M run rate. Now he's back, live on stage with Julian at the Outliers Summit in New York, still the only founder of a company that raised $30M at a $250M valuation. Ben explains why he regrets bringing on co-founders just to raise money, why the technical co-founder is now AI, and why you should try solo before you go looking for one.\nTopics covered:\n- Building a startup as art\n- What a one-person company looks like at this scale\n- Raising on a deck with two co-founders who debated instead of decided\n- Why not deciding is worse than a wrong decision\n- Why Polsia is \"AI Slop\" spelled backwards\n- Agents as digital humans with a personality\n- True solo, free solo and juiced solo\n- Who Polsia's customers really are, and why every setup step loses people\n- Founders as creative directors\n- \"Aren't you lonely?\" and the case for solo founding\nGuest: Ben Cera, founder of Polsia, the AI that builds and runs companies.\nApply to the Solo Founders program: https://solofounders.com/program/r/the_podcast\nNewsletter: https://solofounders.beehiiv.com/","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}