The Secret $2 Trillion Market Founders Are Ignoring | Sunil Rajaraman, Hamlet

Podcast: Solo Founders · Solo Founders

Opublikowano: 2026-04-29

Two trillion dollars of GDP flows through local government every year. 90%+ of city council votes are pre-decided before the meeting starts. And almost no founder will touch the market. Sunil is the rare exception. He ran for city council in Orinda, California, lost, and walked away with a newsletter for residents and an obsession with how opaque local government actually is. That newsletter became Hamlet — the civic AI making local government meetings legible to residents, real estate developers, and the cities themselves. This episode is the most concrete civic-engagement segment we've recorded on the show, and incidentally a clean fo...