{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"His Public Company Blew Up. He Came Back Solo. | Francis Davidson, Odessia","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/bb2b3605\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3544,"description":"Francis Davidson built Sonder into a multi-billion-dollar company, took it public, was pushed out as CEO, and watched it collapse. The same month he left, he started over — this time solo, building Odessia, an AI travel agent, with a founding team of seven. This is the honest version of the comeback: why he went solo when his co-founders were great, why he skipped the MVP, and why he still thinks the one-person billion-dollar company is a myth.\nTopics covered:\n- Building Sonder from a college side-hustle into a billion-dollar company, and its collapse\n- Why he went solo for the comeback when his co-founders were great\n- Skipping the MVP: how coding agents rewrote the startup playbook\n- Solo, not alone: building a founding team of seven with full ownership\n- Founder mode vs. hiring executives, the hardest lesson from Sonder\nGuest: Francis Davidson — founder & CEO of Odessia and previously founder & CEO of Sonder.","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}