Solo Founders Podcast
Solo Founders Podcast is an interview series hosted by Julian WeisserJulian WeisserEntrepreneur, early-stage investor and founder-community organizer; co-founder of On Deck and founder of Solo Founders, supporting solo entrepreneurs in product development, fundraising and team building.Open the full entry about solo founders’ experiences with products, financing, hiring and company building. It is distributed through YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Key facts
March 2026Launch
On March 3, 2026, Julian Weisser announced that Solo Founders Podcast would release its first episode the following day. The series would feature solo founders experimenting with new approaches and experienced entrepreneurs discussing product and organizational choices.[1]
September 30, 2026Sara Du and Ando
The Sara DuSara DuSara Du is a software entrepreneur, co-founder of Alloy Automation and founder of Ando (team messaging). She attended Harvard before becoming a Thiel Fellow and works on integrations, product design and collaboration between people and AI agents.Open the full entry interview revisited her founding Alloy AutomationAlloy AutomationAlloy Automation is a software integration business founded by Sara Du and Gregg Mojica in 2019. It expanded from ecommerce automation into embedded integrations, unified APIs and AI agent connectivity; Mojica subsequently described a pivot to Kinter.Open the full entry at 19, running it for about five and a half years and independently building Ando (team messaging)Ando (team messaging)Ando is a team messaging platform founded by Sara Du that brings people and AI agents into a shared workspace. Built around channels and messages, it emphasizes agent context, access boundaries and collaboration across tools. It launched publicly in September 2026.Open the full entry. The discussion covered product design for people and AI agents, early hiring, fundraising and long-term entrepreneurial choices.[2]
Format: Long-form founder conversations
The official site describes roughly hour-long conversations with founders and investors, including building companies with AI, finding customers, technical and nontechnical roles and whether a co-founder is needed. Individual episode lengths vary.[3]
Host and brand: Julian Weisser and Solo Founders
Distribution: Video, audio and text
The show is distributed through YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Its site provides an episode directory, update subscriptions and an interface for asking questions about interview transcripts, while related blog posts summarize individual conversations.[3]
Organizations, websites and public accounts
Official podcast site: https://solofounders.com/podcast (opens in a new window).[3]
YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@solofounding (opens in a new window).[3]
SpotifySpotifySpotify is an audio streaming subscription service offering on-demand music, podcasts, and audiobooks through a free ad-supported service and a paid Premium subscription. Its parent company, Spotify Technology S.A., is incorporated in Luxembourg, has its principal operations in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker SPOT). It helped move the recorded-music business from buying and owning music to on-demand streaming and is one of the largest audio streaming subscription services by users.Open the full entry: https://open.spotify.com/show/7dTV0KyX19EV8yAxHVg9vg (opens in a new window).[3]
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/solo-founders/id1881721449 (opens in a new window).[3]
Solo Founders X: https://x.com/solofounders (opens in a new window).[3]
Solo Founders LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solo-founders/ (opens in a new window).[3]