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Latest episodes

He Learned to Code on Paper. Now He's Fixing the Internet. | Chai Choudhary, Workers

October 28, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

AI agents now write the code, review it and write the tests. Chai Choudhary, solo founder of Workers IO, is building the proof layer that shows whether any of it works. A conversation about why "nobody's buying code" anymore, the first…
The Cure to Founder Burnout Isn't Rest | 6 Solo Founders

October 21, 2026 · 23 min

Six solo founders on the question underneath every startup: how do you choose a company you'll still want to be running in ten years? Julian revisits conversations with Dhravya Shah (Supermemory), Francis Davidson (Odessia), Thais Castello…
She Built Facebook's First Assistant. Now She's Betting Against Full Autonomy | Shivani Poddar, Wajo

October 14, 2026 · 58 min

Shivani Poddar led engineering on Google DeepMind's autonomous coding agent. Then she went solo to build Fo — the personal agent whose viral launch admitted what no AI lab will: AI often can't finish the job alone, so her agent hires…
He Sold His Dad's Shoes on eBay at 12. At 25 He Built a $4B Company Solo. | Ali Ansari, micro1

October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Ali Ansari never had a co-founder - he didn't know they existed. In this episode, the micro1 founder tells Julian how he went from selling his dad's shoes on eBay at 12 to deleting his profitable AI recruiting business and going all-in on…
No Co-Founder, a Year in Stealth and $20M to Replace Slack | Sara Du, Ando

September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

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…

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1M Users in 3 Months, Pivoted, Then Tripled User Count | James Clift, Durable

September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

James Clift hasn't been employed by a company he didn't own since he was sixteen. He paid for a year of university with a window-cleaning business, bought VisualCV as a $100K legacy resume site and rebuilt it (sold 2020), then went solo at…
Why You Don't Need a Co-Founder to Start | Dave Morin, Offline Ventures

September 16, 2026 · 58 min

Dave Morin helped launch Facebook Platform, founded Path, co-founded Slow Ventures, and now runs Offline Ventures. He backed Ben Cera fifteen years before Polsia and chairs the OpenClaw Foundation. He calls himself a producer, not an…
5 Solo Founders Called In With Their Hardest Problem | Solo Founders Office Hours

September 9, 2026 · 48 min

Five solo founders brought their hardest current problem to a live office hours, and Julian worked each one in real time. An open-source app with 1.25 million users and a few hundred paying subscribers. A data product the market "doesn't…
Why Investors Say "We Don't Back Solo Founders" (And What They Mean)

September 2, 2026 · 22 min

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…
No Co-Founder, No Degree, $41.5M to Fix AI Data Centers | Zach Laberge, Omen

August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Zach Laberge dropped out of high school to build his first company. His second, Omen AI, puts real-time sensors inside the fluids that keep AI data centers and industrial machines running. He's 20, has no co-founder, and has raised $41.5M…
Searching For A Co-Founder Is How You Get A Bad One | 4 VC-Backed Solo Founders

August 19, 2026 · 36 min

It's been a year since the Solo Founders Program kicked off. Today, the first cohort sits down to discuss building solo, together. What a year of building taught them: why retention is growth (the smile curve, and the leaky bucket nobody…
Non-Technical, No Co-Founder, $100M+ Raised | John Glasgow, Campfire

August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

John Glasgow is the anti-pattern founder: non-technical, 36 when he started, a newborn at home during Y Combinator, and solo after his co-founder left within weeks. After 15 years in corporate finance at Adobe, Fidelity, and Invoice2go, he…

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About the show

The Solo Founder's Podcast features in-depth interviews with solo founders building remarkable companies. Each week, host Julian Weisser sits down with solo founders who are either operating at serious scale or doing something right now that you need to know about. From Series B and beyond to founders breaking out in real-time, these are the conversations that define what it means to build solo. New episodes every week.