I can't agree more. I understand the Silicon Valley bias against solo founders given that most celebrated founders are very young and in your twenties you don't

I can't agree more. I understand the Silicon Valley bias against solo founders given that most celebrated founders are very young and in your twenties you don't yet have a well developed support system. Building a company is hard but it's really not that much harder than other things that are truly worth doing and haven't been done yet. Virtually everything worth doing is about failing repeatedly as you try for the few bits of success that you build on and turn into something truly worthwhile and this repeated failure is going to hurt your self-esteem badly unless you have a strong support system. If you already have a support system, you may be better off without a co-founder unless there is someone you almost have to have. I've had success building companies more than once as a solo-founder. Having tried it now with a co-founder, I would be very, very wary of doing it that way again, and I didn't try it with a "random" person.