Silicon Valley’s Top Investors Bet on This 22-Year-Old Founder | Sola, Jessica Wu

Jessica, co-founder and CEO of Sola, shares her journey from MIT and hedge funds to raising $21M by age 22 from top Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this interview, she opens up about: 1. The hardest lesson she learned at Y Combinator: “Stop overbuilding. Start selling.” 2. How she and her team built Sola, an AI platform automating mission-critical workflows for Fortune 100 companies. 3. Why resilience, risk-taking, and listening to customers became her founder's superpowers. Watch to learn what it really takes to build a startup that earns the trust of some of the world’s biggest companies—while navigating the rollercoaster of being a 20-something founder. 00:00 Intro 00:57 What is Sola? 01:46 From Youngest Quant to Founder 05:44 The Oldest Inconvenience, The Biggest Opportunity 09:38 The Counterintuitive YC Playbook 10:24 Stop overbuilding, Start selling 12:03 Delivering Happiness 15:04 If You Can't Do It for 10 years, Don't Start 🔗 Read the full transcription of Jessica’s interview: https://www.eomag.io/article/sola-jessica-wu?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net X | @eostudi0 LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO Instagram | @eostudio.official Newsletter | https://www.eomag.io/subscribe?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description

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Aug 29, 202517mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 29, 2025
Duration: 17m
Channel: EO Studio
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Jessica, co-founder and CEO of Sola, shares her journey from MIT and hedge funds to raising $21M by age 22 from top Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this interview, she opens up about:
The hardest lesson she learned at Y Combinator: “Stop overbuilding. Start selling.”
How she and her team built Sola, an AI platform automating mission-critical workflows for Fortune 100 companies.
Why resilience, risk-taking, and listening to customers became her founder's superpowers.
Watch to learn what it really takes to build a startup that earns the trust of some of the world’s biggest companies—while navigating the rollercoaster of being a 20-something founder. 00:00 Intro 00:57 What is Sola? 01:46 From Youngest Quant to Founder 05:44 The Oldest Inconvenience, The Biggest Opportunity 09:38 The Counterintuitive YC Playbook 10:24 Stop overbuilding, Start selling 12:03 Delivering Happiness 15:04 If You Can't Do It for 10 years, Don't Start 🔗 Read the full transcription of Jessica’s interview: https://www.eomag.io/article/sola-jessica-wu?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net X | @eostudi0 LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO Instagram | @eostudio.official Newsletter | https://www.eomag.io/subscribe?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description

SPEAKERS

Jessica Wu
guest
Founder of Sola, a platform focused on automating manual business workflows so teams can focus on higher-level strategy and decision-making.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of EO Studio, featuring Jessica Wu, Silicon Valley’s Top Investors Bet on This 22-Year-Old Founder | Sola, Jessica Wu explores sola’s Jessica Wu on agentic RPA, YC selling, enterprise trust Sola is an agentic process automation platform that records workflows and runs them at scale to replace brittle, hard-to-build traditional RPA in enterprise environments.

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