New podcast episode drops tomorrow, a practical guide to shipping your idea in a weekend, and a deep-dive on Polsia. Plus, submit your business idea to win AI agents. Let's get into it!
“I’m a solo founder, not entirely by choice.”
We sat down with a founder who offered the co-founder title to several people before starting his company. They all said no. So, he built it solo — Series B, $300M valuation, nearly 50 employees, all in under 14 months.
Previously impossible.
“A single person with conviction and the right tools can now outship a team of fifty who are building by committee.”
That's most of you.
Richie McIlroy (solo founder of Cap) wrote a practical guide to go from idea to working software in a weekend. The gap between the two used to be significant. You needed a team with different skillsets, and it took months to write enough code for a functional MVP.
That's not true anymore. Ben Cera (solo founder) built Polsia, an AI that runs your company while you sleep. Andrej Karpathy open-sourced an agent that executes research experiments indefinitely, without human involvement. Ammaar Reshi reverse-engineered a childhood video game with no source code. All of these would have been impossible a year ago.
Anish Acharya (GP at a16z) framed it: “Part is just knowing what's possible — or perhaps better, not assuming previously impossible things still are.”
Two focused hours at night with an AI agent can produce what used to take weeks. The tools are here. Just get going.
$100K to $3M in 21 days + Polsia giveaway:
If your new company isn't 80% AI-automated in 2026, a competitor who is will outpace you on speed and cost
AI agents can be scoped and trusted like real team members when you give them narrow, well-defined authority
The barriers to starting a company (capital, skill, time) are collapsing — the main requirement left is having a point of view
Free Polsia credits giveaway (+ a private group chat for winners)
Thanks for reading!
Solo, together.
— Kieran, Julian, & The Solo Founders Team
