{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"Why Investors Say \"We Don't Back Solo Founders\" (And What They Mean)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1301,"description":"About 65% of high-potential startups that fail die from co-founder conflict. Julian, who spent seven years matching co-founders before starting Solo Founders, answers the six questions people ask most about going solo: do you need a co-founder, is it as lonely as it sounds, who has actually done it, how do you raise money alone, do solo founders fail more, and what is \"solo founder syndrome.\"\nTopics covered:\n- Solo founder vs co-founder: raise the bar; don't settle for a co-founder of convenience\n- Why ~65% of startup failures trace to the founding team, and what that means if you're solo\n- Loneliness as the solo founder's real failure mode, and \"solo, together\" as the fix\n- Famous solo founders past and present: eBay, Dell, Zoom, Browserbase, WorkOS, Loyal, Polsia\n- Fundraising alone: the pass as an easy out; investors reading your talent bar through your hires\n- The dilution advantage: optimizing for investor quality over valuation\n- The denominator delusion: the base-rate error behind \"solo founders fail more\"\n- \"Solo founder syndrome,\" debunked\nHost: Julian Weisser, founder of Solo Founders; previously co-founded On Deck (ODF), where he ran the largest co-founder-matching program in tech for seven years.\nThe State of Solo Founding report: https://solofounders.com/report\n65% figure: Noam Wasserman, The Founder's Dilemmas (Harvard Business School)","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}