Advanced AI tools let one founder build a billion-dollar company alone, triggering a wave of solo-founder startups. Instead of a few massive unicorns, expect tens of thousands of $10 million to $100 million firms, each profitable and personally rewarding but less likely to deliver the 100-x returns venture capital chases.
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What the one person billion dollar startup implies is that one person can just have so much more agency and so much more leverage using one of these tools that it is just super easy for them to get everything done that they need to for their business to ultimately create something that's a billion dollars. One second order effect of this is I think there's going to be a huge startup boom where anyone can build software for anything. In order to enable a one person billion dollar startup. There might be like a hundred other small startups building bespoke software that works extremely well. So I think we might actually enter into a golden age of B2B SaaS. And just like softw in general, there might be one one person billion dollar startup or there might be like a hundred hundred million startups, there might be tens of thousands of $10 million startups. Third order effect of this, if we end up moving to this world where you end up with these like kind of micro companies building software that works for one or two people, the startup ecosystem will change, the VC ecosystem will change. The types of venture scale return startups that can really a hundred or thousand x your investment might actually end up shrinking if you end up having a bunch of these smaller 10 to 50 million companies which are not great for solid returns but are great for the individuals who are now really leaning into AI to build these businesses for themselves.
