A few hundred founder meetings in ten weeks. Nobody brought a co-founder.<\/p>\n
Almost every non technical founder walked in with a working MVP.<\/p>\n
Not a deck.
\nNot a Figma file.
\nA product.
\nBuilt by them, on vibe coding tools, in weeks.
\n98 out of 100.<\/p>\n
Two years ago that same founder would have spent six months hunting a technical co-founder, given up 30 to 40 percent of the company, and still been waiting for a demo.<\/p>\n
In January at Davos, Dario Amodei said AI could take over most of a software engineer’s work end to end within a year. Founders did not wait for the year. They already stopped asking for the engineer.<\/p>\n
Here is the part that matters.<\/p>\n
The technical co-founder was never the goal. The technical co-founder was how you got the first working thing. Now the first working thing is free.<\/p>\n
So the seat next to you is empty again. And the founders I meet are filling it with execution. A seller. A domain expert. Or nobody at all.<\/p>\n
The MVP used to be the proof. Now it is the entry fee. Proof has moved to the invoice.<\/p>\n
Not deep tech. Business startups. The kind that live on a customer paying every month.<\/p>\n
If you gave up 35 percent for a technical co-founder, what did that 35 percent actually buy you?<\/p>\n
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