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Agency is Eating the World

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A solo operator can now launch a $1b business powered by ai. Our economy's critical dividing line is no longer skill or education — it's will.

Agency is Eating the World April 2025 This essay has been featured on The Wall Street Journal and Pirate Wires . -- In 2023, Sam Altman famously said, “There’ll soon be a 1-person billion-dollar company.” Two years later, we're watching his prediction unfold — not simply because of AI, but because of the kind of individuals who are wielding it. A new breed of companies is emerging: lean, unconventional, and wildly successful. They generate hundreds of millions of dollars and yet have no sales teams, no marketing departments, no formal HR, not even vertically specialized engineers. They’re led

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