The One-Person Company Stopped Being a Thesis
“Solo founder” used to be a phrase investors said with a wince. It read as couldn’t find a co-founder — a red flag on a term sheet. Going it alone was the backup plan, not the point. That framing is now dead, and it didn’t die by argument. It died the way framings actually die: the data stopped supporting it. This post is about the two datasets that killed it — and about the one number in them that most people quoting these stats get backwards. ...