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zupa-hu on Aug 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Research Says Solo Founders Perform Better

# Reason 3: Lower costs

They lost me here. Founders take a significantly lower salary, anything else is typically a rounding error.

That just flies against (my) common sense.

noychery on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

Author of the article here. At least for myself I see a big difference in payroll in GrowthClub (with a solo founder) and my own startup with 3 co-founders and 2 more shareholders-partners.

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