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Everything awesome starts as a cult
The First Follower
A Derek Sivers TED Talk shows it: one person dancing in a field is a crazy person. Then a second person gets up and joins, suddenly ten people are dancing, and it is a party. That second person is why co-founders have mattered so much, and why YC believed for so long that founders need them.
Computer Outsiders
The same pattern shows up at the start of the computer. The people who imagined a computer on every desk in every home were fringe weirdo punks, outsiders who followed an obsession of wanting their own computer. The Homebrew Computer Club was not where you were getting laid.
Founders Times 400
With vibe coding and agentic coding, any given person can now be 400 of themselves, a multiple that did not exist nine months ago. The belief that you need co-founders is in the middle of a big transformation.
How did the Homebrew Computer Club begin?
The club first met in March 1975 in a garage in Menlo Park, California, soon after the Altair 8800 kit appeared on the cover of Popular Electronics. Members traded circuits, parts, and programs. Steve Wozniak attended early meetings, and he showed his Apple I design there. Steve Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976.
Why did Microsoft's early goal sound so strange?
In 1975, computers were mostly large machines owned by corporations, universities, and governments. Microsoft's founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, adopted the goal of a computer on every desk and in every home, and it served as the company's mission for decades. Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975.
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