Her best friend passed away. She built an AI to keep talking to him. Now 30M people use Replika. Solo Founders Podcast ep 4 is live with @ekuyda. Former journalist, now 2x solo founder, who's been building consumer AI since 2014. As if Replika wasn't ambitious enough, she just raised $20M for @wabi to help people create personal software. Her take: storytelling is the rarest founder skill. Vision comes from one person. Don't dilute authorship by randomly assigning co-founder titles to make…