A solo founder for nine years shares why he'd never do it again. He describes the emotional toll of building alone, notes that investors prefer teams, and explains that the ideal co-founder relationship feels like having a sibling you trust completely.
Now I will say that there is sort of a bias. I actually do know that there's a fair number of funds who prefer to see a co-founder. And I've actually, I actually was a solo founder for 9 years in my first company. And after that experience, the business worked out fine. We had a good outcome, but I swore I would never do that again. And the reason why is because it's so emotionally lonely. Just talking about this for a second here, like the great thing about having co-founders is especially if you find the right co-founders, they really are like siblings to you. And the right co-founders are people that absolutely have your back, right? It's for me and me, Elizabeth and Sheen, my two other co-founders, these women, I would trust them. Like if I were like in the, God forbid, like some sort of like catastrophic accident and like they need to make a decision to pull the plug without my wife, I would trust them to actually make the right choice, which is to pull the plug.
