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Unless a company will only have one employee forever, there is no knowledge "specialized" enough. If you are exceptionally skilled in something, you can find someone who possess what you are lacking. Especially in an investor's point of view, it might seem dangerous to have a single founder running the show. You need someone to back you at times, and disagree and say you're doing it wrong at other times.
Instead of finding exceptions, why not have the statistics work in your favor?
I think "have the statistics work in your favor" means "be average".
I would not run unnecessary risks just to avoid being "average". Would you?
Sometimes being a rebel-without-a-cause isn't the best approach.
What I meant is that you should base your decisions on your own situation, not statistics. You are likely to end up average anyway - that's the nature of statistics. If you don't, that shouldn't bother you..
But what are the statistics for very specialized startups such as X-Plane?
It seems to me that if a startup requires very specialized knowledge, then one founder may be better than two or three. An excellent example of this would be X-Plane by Laminar Research:
http://www.x-plane.com
Open source projects such as TeX and TeXmacs also support this view.
Another example:
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/