{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"He Helped Founders Raise $2 Billion. Now He's Sold on Solo Founding - Julian Weisser","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4604,"description":"Today I walk with Julian Weisser, founder of Solo Founders and co-founder of On Deck. Julian has run 27 ODF cohorts, helped more than 1,000 founders collectively raise over $2 billion, and spent eight years matching people with co-founders, and now he believes AI has made the co-founder optional. He gets into the $400,000 payout demand from a co-founder who did two months of work, and why he compares co-founders to car phones now that solo founders have the cell phone.\nWe get into:\n- Calling his own teenage taste in jazz \"musical masturbation,\" and the moment that actually taught him to love it\n- The $400,000 payout a co-founder demanded for two months of work, and why there was no mechanism to force them out\n- His run co-founding On Deck, where 27 cohorts helped over 1,000 founders raise $2B+, and why he thinks the co-founder problem is basically already solved\n- The Hacker News post that got almost no response except one email from Dropbox's first employee\nso much more!\nTimestamps\n(00:00) Trailer\n(00:51) Julian Weisser, Founder, Solo Founders\n(02:06) Calling his old jazz taste \"musical masturbation\"\n(20:17) 27 cohorts, thousands of founders, more reps than any VC\n(35:50) The $400K co-founder payout demand\n(39:45) The Hacker News post that led to Dropbox's first employee\n(44:45) Golden Gate Park was built from sand dunes\n(54:50) Why co-founders have seasons, not forever contracts\n(58:53) The \"oddballs\" who never wanted co-founders, including Loyal's Celine Halioua\n(1:00:59) Co-founders are the car phone. Solo founders are the cell phone.\n(1:06:47) Why owning less equity can mean more freedom\n(1:16:18) His two-word life philosophy: keep going\n(1:16:34) Outro\nFollow Julian\nX: https://x.com/julianweisser\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianweisser/\nFollow Luba\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/\nX: https://x.com/LubaYudasina","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YqzaHw3n0IkFjbaJ3P1-kJdgx8xK8KM9hpwhFomu37c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNTdk/NDE1ZWFmMmZiMGJk/YWZmODg0ZDZmMDYy/M2Q1Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}