Big news: @HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is acquiring @warmlyai .
Well that feels surreal to write. Today, I feel just as excited as 7 years ago when I was starting up!
Back then, I was giddy. Just a guy with an idea & a few cofounders hoping to change the world of GTM forever.
And
The Solo Founders Podcast is only 19 weeks old.
We've shipped 19 episodes.
About to hit 250k views on YT.
10k subs is on its way.
It's early days, but the idea of solo founding becomes closer to the default with every episode we release.
Today we’re unveiling Solo Grants.
We give microgrants ($100-1,000) to individuals pursuing passion projects.
We’ve already given 50 out and we’re just getting started.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 19 is live with @aridutilh to discuss it.
00:09 The announcement
07:04 Microgrants
"Millions of people creating with the same tool for totally different use cases, but the output looks the same. That's where the feeling of AI slop comes from."
She's making it her mission to put an end to it.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 18 is live with @thaiscbranco_ of
Introducing the $100 max plan on @supermemory cloud
- 7x limit from pro plan and 10x cheaper than self-hosting same amount of usage
- Granola, Gmail and other connectors
- Most API features enabled - Best for startups, internal team and heavy personal use!
Today we announce raising our Series A and $25M in total funding to do more of the work for the hundreds of companies that trust us with their sales tax and the thousands more we want to serve.
Indirect tax is the least sexy, biggest problem in almost every company that sells
i don’t really care about taxes i just think andrew is one of the best operators i’ve ever seen and i wanted to learn from him so i invested
and great operators have never lost me
money
Today we announce raising our Series A and $25M in total funding to do more of the work for the hundreds of companies that trust us with their sales tax and the thousands more we want to serve.
Indirect tax is the least sexy, biggest problem in almost every company that sells
Today we announce raising our Series A and $25M in total funding to do more of the work for the hundreds of companies that trust us with their sales tax and the thousands more we want to serve.
Indirect tax is the least sexy, biggest problem in almost every company that sells
He tried a co-founder and realized it was a mistake.
Then he built solo and raised $50M.
Solo Founders Podcast ep 17 is live with @Altimor of @getlindy.
06:53 The bar for a co-founder: if there's a doubt, there's no doubt
07:55 Why vesting schedules are broken
12:23 From Uber
Solo-founded $2B company. Used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit.
Solo Founders ep 13 is live with @grinich of @WorkOS.
07:49 The co-founder "blood bond" is a myth
10:55 There's only room for one Zuck at Meta
32:51 Pivots are the most traumatic thing you can do to a business
43:18
We all know AI has a "taste" problem.
We measured it. It’s (somewhat) fixable, but AI judges can't replace human creative judgement.
Introducing Design Crit.
New research from @contralabs_ai and @world_lica, now live on @arxiv
Small announcement: I received the Merge/Solo grant(@mergedotclub), supporting my project to make affordable scanning electron microscopes, accompanied by a slew of other scientific equipment. And a sneak peek of what's next :)
Thanks to @mcmgoodall@julianweisser@aridutilh!