Do You Really Need A Co-Founder? With Julian Weisser (Solo Founders)

Podcast: Solo Founders · Solo Founders

Opublikowano: 2026-04-22

For the first time ever, more than one in three new companies are being started solo. Five years ago that number was under 25%. This week the host becomes the guest: Julian Weisser — founder of Solo Founders, former co-founder of On Deck (where he ran 27 ODF cohorts and helped over 1,000 founders collectively raise $2B+) — sits down with David J. Phillips (CEO of Fondo, solo founder) for the full thesis behind Solo Founders. They cover the "denominator delusion" that keeps the co-founder default alive, the three types of solo founders (True Solo, Free Solo, Juiced Solo), why companies run out of hope...