After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

Sam Altman and his “His Technical Director Friends” have a betting pool In the first person we will see a billion dollar company.

Would not be the idea of ​​a person who reached a billion dollars for a beginner Unimaginable without AI. However, the only man, AI-first enterprises, in the technological industry and the Birk Jernström, germinated on each side of CEO Polar“Putting platform to strengthen one person for unicorns” stands to help them become there.

Pole, pay attention to the needs of developers, hoping to differentiate from other payment infrastructure platforms. As the POLAR and the ‘record merchant’, which provides shipping and tax development and taxes, enterprises can sell online products and SAAS subscribers from the first day.

Polares can be carried out by several lines, Polar’s $ 10 million seeds can be carried out with a resonant approach in the speed of the VC. “There are partners Andrey Brasoveanu,” AI-native, early stage jobs, “said Andrey Brasoveanu.

He also helped a speech at the bottom of Jernström’s pipeline. Previous start, TictionalTaken by the seller in 2018 For $ 17 million in the entire cash combination. He and his coffeepers created him with passion for the goods that sell it online until they create a blog.

“In 2011, we started Ticail in the task of authorizing everyone Start an online store. We started in 2012 and came quickly. After a few years, we are very much in the platform for 100,000+ merchants at home, long tail, “said Jernström.

To accept that small merchants need more traffic, tictional developed a marketplace Finally, he made him a target for a traitor. Tictional’s opponent has grew larger and larger merchants grew. But then her ipoCanadian company saw the need to look at the consumer of the items and believed that Tictional team could help.

Its coffeeers and several employees together with Jernström Joined the newly created shop team. “This result was what was known as now Store application and Pay the store Ecosystem I honored to be a part of zero and a scale. “

However, in 2021, Jernström was a while to reflect itself while trying to be a father for the first time. As a result, the pole caused resigning from the distant role to understand the next move.

Split, completely affectionate, so much that the CEO Tobias Lutke and President Harley Finkelstein, now both are supported as the angels. In Jernström, the “Merchant-Obsesive” culture they set in in a sales.

“I respond more than 50 or more than 60 or more than 60 or more than 60 support tickets. Every client knows we are working with, but I’m a little crazy, but I figure out how easy it is.”

Understand and have a customer base open source Pole won traction with target users. Since then launch In September 2024, the starting 18,000 customers and most developers are a software provider.

This is reflected in the hat’s table, entrepreneurs behind the popular developer instruments: Framer and CaycastBoth are combined with the Pole; Bottomed, Nuxt, Send, Support, Give a loyaltyand EmployeesOpen and CuteSharing a focus that simplifies the pole of Swedish roots and construction.

Now, like platforms like Safabaz, they support Jernström’s passion to build a business around and build this program to build and scale.

This is this relationship when it created for AI’s Indie hackers and professional developers. However, it also combines these points as an entrepreneurian mother as a child; become a developer since your teenager; Of course, Tictail’s journey to lift young children.

“My Pole is like the shops: I really know how to build and watch and watch the ship and watch the ship programs and follow more entrepreneurs.”