Former Uber Exec: How I Built a 40k Subscriber Business Alone | Josh Mohrer, Wave AI

A lot of app founders think growth means hiring more people. Josh Mohrer spent five and a half years running Uber in New York with 70+ people reporting to him. Today he's building Wave AI, an AI note taker, as a solo founder. The app has 40k+ paying subscribers who record about 15,000 hours of audio every single day. In this episode, Josh shows how he runs the whole business from a Claude Code window with 50 tabs, what he has automated, and what he still refuses to hand off. You'll learn: How a non-engineer went from Uber New York to shipping his first app with AI The AI support system that reads user logs, escalates to stronger models and drafts every reply Why Josh still personally touches 50 to 100 tickets a day How his Meta ads run on autopilot with an AI experimentation bucket, and why organic video never worked for him Why you can't A/B test your way into success, and the paywall rules he learned fast in the app world Why only half of his installs ever make a first recording, and what's causing it Why he isn't worried about Apple or OpenAI, won't raise VC money, and calls himself a shopkeeper who sells inference What to automate first as a solo founder, and what to keep doing by hand Topics this video covers: solo founder, one person company, how to build an app with AI, AI customer support, Claude Code, bootstrapped app, indie app developer, subscription app growth, app paywall, AI note taker, run a business with AI, Wave AI Say hi to Josh:   / joshmohrer   Try Wave: https://wave.co Subscribe to the channel for new episodes:    / @subhuben   Adapty on LinkedIn:   / adaptyio   Adapty on X: https://x.com/adapty