{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline Ventures","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/58a548dd\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3502,"description":"Dave 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 producer, not an investor, and makes the case that founding is a relational act: most startups fail on relationships, not product, and the only way solo founding fails is believing \"solo\" means alone.\nTopics covered:\n- The Alchemist, and why starting is freedom from suffering\n- \"YouTube can be your co-founder. ChatGPT can be your co-founder.\"\n- The producer, not the investor: why startups die on relationships\n- What Jony Ive told Dave when Steve Jobs died\n- The first twelve hours with Clawdbot, and finding Peter Steinberger\n- How Polsia actually started: Gift Shop, Kyoto, Company OS, and \"Am I crazy?\"\n- Ramble, and the 10,000-dinners test for what to build\n- The bear case and the bull case for solo founding\nGuest: Dave Morin — co-founder of Offline Ventures (offline.vc); early Facebook, founder of Path, co-founder of Slow Ventures, Chairperson of the OpenClaw Foundation.","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}