{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"Turning Services Into Software To Move Talent To America | Minn Kim, Lighthouse","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/dc88a76c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3393,"description":"Minn Kim runs Lighthouse, the AI-powered immigration firm rebuilding the visa stack for frontier-tech companies. She is solo. She isn't a lawyer. Her first two hires were engineers. The conversation with Julian covers how she got there, why \"solve your own problem\" isn't always the path to success, the complicated-vs-complex framework she uses to pick what to build, and her bull case for solo founding stated as a fact about her own life rather than a thesis.Topics covered:The Korean-immigrant origin and the 2022 side quest that became LighthouseServices-as-software: why \"professional services don't scale\" stopped being true around 2021Why \"solve your own problem\" isn't always right — and what to do insteadThe complicated-vs-complex problem framework for founder fit and capital structureFirst two hires were engineers, not lawyersLong-game hiring and contractor-to-full-time as a deliberate patternThe 30-question anonymous Google Form for surfacing blind spots\"Twenty of them in the world\" — the talent-infrastructure thesis behind LighthouseBear case and bull case for solo founding, the latter stated as lived experienceGuest: Minn Kim — founder and CEO of Lighthouse, the AI-powered immigration firm for frontier-tech companies and their hires.","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}