{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, Ando","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e32b474e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4487,"description":"Sara Du co-founded Alloy Automation at 19 and ran it for five and a half years. Her second company, Ando, she's building solo: team messaging designed from scratch for humans and AI agents working together, freshly out of stealth with a $20M seed from Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence Capital. A conversation about why agents are locked out of the tools teams live in, and what founding looks like the second time — alone, on purpose.\nTopics covered:\n- Why Slack's architecture can't serve AI agents (the locked office building)\n- Agents as coworkers: identity, permissions, etiquette, and the first 90 days\n- Market-personality fit: picking a problem worth ten years of your life\n- The solo founder's hiring playbook: attract don't chase, contract-to-hire, minimalist headcount\n- Co-founder the first time, solo the second: the bear and bull case\nGuest: Sara Du — founder & CEO of Ando; previously co-founder & CEO of Alloy Automation; Thiel Fellow.","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}