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Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders | Blitzscaling 02

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Are You a Solo Founder?

The trick to being a great founder, at least in the early stages and honestly this kind of goes on forever is your ability to be presented with a problem unlike anything you've seen before. We prefer two or three person team founding teams, but we are not religiously opposed to solo founders. So look, it's definitely possible although if you made a list of the sort of 10 billion plus dollar tech companies and looked at how many of those didn't have co-founders by say six months in, it's a pretty short list I guess. But start working on an idea without a co-founder, but never stop looking for one if you're a solo founder.

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