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I think the whole "you must have a cofounder" thing is silly. There's no hard and fast rule, except for the one where almost every startup is going to fail wit

I think the whole "you must have a cofounder" thing is silly. There's no hard and fast rule, except for the one where almost every startup is going to fail with or without cofounders, with or without YC. Applications and acceptance don't mean anything. Applying isn't helpful for 97+% of applicants. Rejection doesn't really mean much either.

shimms 15y ago
There is a fair bit of information out there that strongly suggests a correlation between founding teams of 2 having more success than single founders. 3 appears to be the maximum before it becomes detrimental again. The startup genome project has done good work collating and analysing this stuff. (I'm a solo founder btw, but with a great group of advisors, some trusted mentors I can mitigate a few of the issues this creates.)