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Has there ever been a one-wo(man) SaaS founder to take a company public?

• smrk007 6y ago
  Do you mean taking a company public without any co-founders and employees, or starting originally with none, then later taking some on? If the latter, I would think Dropbox would count, since at least originally it was a single founder.
  • siruva07 6y ago
    I mean IPO’d with one employee - the founder
    • pcthrowaway 6y ago
      I suspect IPO would be impossible with one 'person'. You'd have other people on payroll: Lawyers and accountants at the very least. If you're paying millions of dollars to professionals anyway at a certain point it would more sense to hire the people directly, right?
      • siruva07 5y ago
        Maybe not. Conceivably, everyone could be on payroll as contractors except the founder.