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Being a solo founder - Spencer Fry
Much has been written about the disadvantages of being a solo founder.
Paul Graham was certainly one of the first to write about it publicly in 2006 when he published his article, Startup Mistakes, with "Single Founder" as the first in a long list of mistakes.
That article came just at the start of the Y Combinator accelerator, which had its first class in Summer 2005. Since then, YC, many other accelerators, and countless venture capitalists, have been down on solo founders.
I'm only a sample size of one, but I've also co-founded three startups, each with successful exits, and solo-founded my most recent startup [Coach], so I believe I'm in a unique position to compare and contrast the pros and cons of single founder-dom.

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