Agency Is Eating the World
Gian Segato is a founding data scientist and engineer at Replit, the AI coding agent that allows anyone (even non-developers) to create a bespoke app instantly via natural language prompting. It’s now one of the fastest-growing products and developer communities in history. Before Replit, Segato founded Uniwhere, the first mobile app to manage college life end-to-end in Italy. He’s also an occasional angel investor. -- In 2023, Sam Altman famously said, “There’ll soon be a one-person billion-dollar company.” Two years later, we’re watching his prediction unfold — and not simply because of AI, but because of the individuals who are wielding it. A new breed of companies is emerging: lean, unconventional, and wildly successful. They generate hundreds of millions of dollars yet have no sales teams, no marketing departments, no formal HR, not even vertically specialized engineers. They’re led by a handful of people doing the work of hundreds, leveraging machines to scale their impact. For y
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