TLDR Tech / Founders
The New Rules of Building
There are now over 117,000 million-dollar one-person businesses in the US, up nearly 4x in a decade. Gamma went from 60,000 users and almost no runway to 70 million users and a $2.1B valuation - with 50 employees. The question "do I even need a technical co-founder?" used to sound naive. Now it might be the most important strategic question a founder can ask. Six moats that still hold when every competitor has access to the same APIs, and why your goal before raising a single dollar should be getting 10 people to pay you, not 10 people to say they like your idea.
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