“I’ve come to view the idea that you absolutely need a co-founder as one of the most harmful memes in Silicon Valley.”
Investors love co-founders because two people are harder to quit than one. The author cites MIT Sloan research that solo founders succeed twice as often. Survivorship bias works on that number too. The real point is cheaper: give your first hires 2 to 4 percent instead of splitting the company in half on day one.