{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"Sold a Company at 16, Raised $3M at 19 | Dhravya Shah, Supermemory","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/9f0b4028\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4367,"description":"Dhravya 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 never chased any of it as a business. He built in public, for free, said no to VCs for nine months, and only raised once the company's vision was undeniable. A conversation about why the fundraise is a result, not the goal.\nTopics covered:Why the raise is a result, not the goal — and saying no to VCs for nine monthsBuilding your \"art\" in public until it becomes a companyEscaping the inventor's dilemma: killing your own viral hitsWhy he's a solo founder, after a co-founder breakup killed an earlier companyThe honest version of AI memory: benchmark-gaming, Goodhart's Law, and evals that matterHiring \"true builders\" out of open source as a solo founderGuest: Dhravya Shah — founder and CEO of Supermemory, the memory layer for AI agents (1M+ SDK downloads); sold his first company at 16, raised $3M at 19; ASU dropout and ex-Cloudflare.","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}