I’m both CEO and technical founder, and it is the worst thing ever. Don’t do it. Always get a technical co-founder, even when you come from a technical background. Being a founder is already hard. Sticking these together is exponentially worse.

Being single founder sucks. I am one. Hard to get yourself motivated. Getting a cofounder just because is even worse. I've been through that as well.

If you meet someone you have good chemistry with by all means but partnering up just to get a cofounder is a recipe for disaster.

I know it seems worse, because you have to do everything yourself, but it has it's benefits.

The main one being that there's no one else to argue with about the value of some technical effort. In an early stage of the company, many "Business" CEOs will not the see the value of investing in a technology platform and you will have lots of annoying and demoralizing discussions about it.

You can always hire others to take on parts of your role, once you get traction.

I agree but getting a technical co-founder is not easy when you simply don't have someone your already know and trust. Otherwise, it could fire back. I'm a single technical founder. My plan to build an MVP, test it, if it gets traction, I will find people who can be potential co-founders, if they fail, I still have my business and just have to find someone better. If you have someone else build your product and they turn out to be crazy, you have nothing.