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How To Get $1,000 For Your Project, No Strings Attached | Solo Grants

Podcast: Solo Founders · Solo Founders

Opublikowano: 2026-07-08

Today we're launching Solo Grants: $100–$1,000 grants, 100% no strings attached, for people building technically ambitious projects solo. Julian sits down with Ari Dutilh who leads the program and is a former grantee himself, to map the wide world of microgrants and explain why the gap between a project seen through and one abandoned is usually just a few hundred dollars. Topics covered: The Solo Grants launch: $100 to $1,000, no equity, no payback, and it doesn't have to be a businessMicrogrants 101: 1517's $1,000 checks, Emergent Ventures, and the Thiel Fellowship lineageThe grantee who asked for $100 less than his application, and th...