The Co-Founder Mythology
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One of the greatest myths in start-up world is that you NEED to have co-founder to create Great , Amazing Companies.One the similar hand some of the largest business (in the recent past) have been created by Solo Founder - Ebay, SpaceX, Spanx, Amazon - to name a few.
In the offline world - most of the largest businesses have been traditionally started by Solo-Founder with some support from friends and family. (Think Andrew Carnegie, Honda, Colonel Sanders and many more)
There is a discrimination in the valley against solo founders because INVESTORS feel much safer investing in multiple people vs backing a single individual!
What Mark is suggesting in this article is actually a very intelligent mid-way path .. Start solo, build your MVP, Get some traction , some angel funding , some customers and then hire a Co-Founder or better still employees with generous stock options.