Analysis of 412 founder stories to answer the age-old question: Is it better to go solo or find co-founders?
Teams reach milestones 13% faster than solo founders
Average time: 5 months (solo) vs 4 months (teams)
212 stories analyzed
200 stories analyzed
Do solo founders or teams accelerate faster through milestones?
Insight: Teams reach $10K MRR 2 months faster than solo founders on average. Division of labor pays off at scale.
Steph leveraged her experience leading content at The Hustle to launch Doing Content Right, earning $40K in the first month.
After a decade making content, Thomas Frank made $1 million in a single year selling Notion templates, with the line peaking at $100k a month in one-time template sales.
Peldi Guilizzoni launched Balsamiq as a one-person wireframing tool, got a sale before launch, and passed $100K in total revenue in less than five months.
Built to solve his own problem with Notion navigation, Gourav kept Notion Boost open-source while still earning $9K+ through premium features.
A DocuPanda cofounder set out to prove you can build a small SaaS that takes real money in under 24 hours, and walked through doing exactly that with a PDF redaction tool.
Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight challenge to control Codex from iPhone into Remodex, a local-first open-source remote that reached about $10K revenue in its first month.