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Solo Founders

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Solo Founders Program
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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. N... more

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Companies are handing every employee AI coding tools and calling themselves AI-native — then blocking everything those employees build. Yakko Majuri, early PostHog engineer and infrastructure lead at Doublepoint through its acquisition by Oura, just ... more

Paul Bakaus created jQuery UI, sold a startup to Zynga, and spent nearly a decade at Google — then went solo to prove one experienced builder, amplified by AI, can do what used to take a team. His company Renaissance Geek is backed by a16z; its first... more

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Everyone thinks going solo means answering to no one. Six solo founders behind WorkOS, Fondo, Plug, Lighthouse, Hamlet, and Julius AI say the opposite: you have more bosses, not fewer, and the job is convincing all of them. Julian revisits the six mo... more

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Claire Vo runs ChatPRD — an AI "Chief Product Officer" for over 100k product managers — as the only full-time human, bootstrapped, with zero venture capital. The twist: she operates the company with a staff of nine named AI agents she manages like re... more

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Recent Guests

Yakko Majuri
Founder/CEO of Railcode
Railcode
Episode: Why PostHog's 6th Employee Went Solo | Yakko Majuri, Railcode
Paul Bakaus
Creator of Impeccable, founder of Renaissance Geek
Renaissance Geek
Episode: AI Can Build Your App. It Can't Make It Good. | Paul Bakaus, Impeccable
Claire Vo
Founder of ChatPRD, product leader with two decades of experience in CTO/CPTO roles
ChatPRD
Episode: She Staffed Her 100k-User Startup With AI Agents | Claire Vo, ChatPRD
Kai Goodall
Collaborator on Solo Grants, Canadian
Solo Grants
Episode: How To Get $1,000 For Your Project, No Strings Attached | Solo Grants
Thais Castello Branco
Founder/creative lead at Taste Labs
Taste Labs
Episode: She Raised $18M Solo to Kill AI Slop | Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs
Ryan Lindy
Co-founder/CEO of Lindy, former Team Flow founder
Lindy
Episode: Going Solo Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception | Flo Crivello, Lindy
Francis Davidson
Founder and entrepreneur behind Sonder and Odessia
Odessia (Founder)
Episode: His Public Company Blew Up. He Came Back Solo. | Francis Davidson, Odessia
Dhravya Shah
Founder (on the episode)
Supermemory
Episode: Sold a Company at 16, Raised $3M at 19 | Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
Charles Hudson
Investor
Investing partner (investor perspective)
Episode: I Asked 5 Massively Successful Founders Why They Went Solo

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Julian Weisser
Host of Solo Founders

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Why PostHog's 6th Employee Went Solo | Yakko Majuri, Railcode
Q: What insight led you to build Railcode?
The realization that many companies were disjointed in how they built internal tooling—team members spinning up tools in different places—so Railcode offers a unified, secure platform to harness internal innovation.
Why PostHog's 6th Employee Went Solo | Yakko Majuri, Railcode
Q: How is Railcode solving internal bottlenecks compared to traditional tooling like Retool?
Railcode provides a self-serve, multiplayer environment where the code stays under the company's control, enables granular permissions, and embeds deployment directly into the workflow, reducing wait times and preventing lock-in.
Why PostHog's 6th Employee Went Solo | Yakko Majuri, Railcode
Q: What is Railcode?
Railcode is a secure environment for building internal apps and agents that lets teams experiment and deploy production-ready tools within their own company, while maintaining governance over data connectors and permissions.
She Staffed Her 100k-User Startup With AI Agents | Claire Vo, ChatPRD
Q: How do AI agents fit into a solo-founded business?
She uses nine specialized agent 'claws' each with its own identity and tools, mirroring an org chart and improving focus, accountability, and task ownership, with transparency about AI involvement.
She Staffed Her 100k-User Startup With AI Agents | Claire Vo, ChatPRD
Q: Why bootstrap instead of taking venture capital?
She emphasizes long-term autonomy, lifestyle alignment, and a focus on cash flow and personal happiness over pursuing billion-dollar scale; bootstrap success is enabled by two decades of technical experience and a strong distribution network.

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What is Solo Founders about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on solo founders who are building at scale or rapidly advancing in real-time, with a strong focus on how individuals navigate company-building without co-founders. Episodes routinely explore solo-founder workflows, fundraising choices, product strategy, and how AI and automation reshape solo journeys. A recurring thread is the emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and deliberate culture, often contrasted with traditional co-founder dynamics. Noteworthy is the frequent discussion of a formalized Solo Founders program as a pathway to momentum, funding, and community support, plus candid, battle-tested anecdotes about pivots, hiring, and go-to-market moves in tech-enabled ventures. The format tends to blend founder narratives with... more

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2. Paul Bakaus
3. Claire Vo
4. Kai Goodall
5. Thais Castello Branco
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