{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"Searching For A Co-Founder Is How You Get A Bad One | 4 VC-Backed Solo Founders","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8106b494\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2161,"description":"It's been a year since the Solo Founders Program kicked off. Today, the first cohort sits down to discuss building solo, together.\nWhat a year of building taught them: why retention is growth (the smile curve, and the leaky bucket nobody checks), why free users are a \"free trend\" and not a business, how to kill a good idea to find the better one, and what a room full of other founders actually gets you. Plus the stories they lived before going solo — including co-founding with your dad at 17.\nTopics covered:\nThe prerequisite trap: why searching for a co-founder gets you a bad one\nCo-founder failure modes: family, close friends, and misaligned incentives\nFinding a co-founder by building (elevating a first hire)\nRetention is growth: the smile curve and the leaky bucket\nHype signals vs. paying customers — the 10x question\nSolo, together: what a founder community functionally replaces\nGuests: Aldo Del Valle (new company, prev. Happypath), Chai Choudhary (Workers.io), Namanyay Goel (Giga), Dhravya Shah (Supermemory)","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}