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What about the single founder? I know the answer, but I guess I shouldn't apply til I find a co-founder?


We have some very successful single-founder companies, such as Instacart. We suggest finding a cofounder not for our benefit, but for your own. Startups are hard, and doing it alone makes it even harder.


pg has said multiple times that a major downfall of a lot of companies is that the two founders have a dispute. What is the major downfall of companies with single founders?


Stamina.


It's obviously very rare. However it has been done before [1].

1. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/03/12/how-solo-foun...


the latest batch had several solo founders


Single founder can work but it's usually not ideal. For one thing, it demonstrates that you can't find or persuade even a single other person interested enough in you and your idea to join up.




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