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Founding alone is still a bad idea even though AI lets one person get more done, because the point of a cofounder is to share the stress.
Drawn from what Paul Graham said
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What Paul Graham actually said
- Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
I still don't think it's a good idea though. The reason to have a cofounder is not just to get more done. It's to have someone to help bear the stress.
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Graham says founding alone is still a bad idea even though AI lets one person get more done, because the point of a cofounder is to share the stress. Levels says all you need is free software, a VPS, an AI API and file hosting. The list of what you need is the disagreement: one of them counts a second person as infrastructure.
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