Carta: 38% of Bootstrapped Start-Ups Have Solo Founders. But Only 17% of VC-Backed Ones Do. And 10%-12% of Ones That IPO.
SaaStr
JANUARY 5, 2025
So does being a solo founder … work in SaaS? We’ve dug into this topic several times at SaaStr. Of the post ~40 SaaS IPOs, only 5 or so had solo co-founders. So let’s call that 10%-12% or so. Still, they are some good ones: Zoom, Scaler, New Relic, Elastic, etc. More on that here : At the Top SaaS Companies, Founder-CEOs Own ~15% at IPO.
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