One Human, Infinite Leverage

Naval Ravikant said it years ago: "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." He was talking about code and media as leverage. But AI agents are a new category entirely -- they are leverage that compounds.

Traditional leverage works linearly. You write code once, it runs forever. You publish content once, it reaches millions. But AI agents create leverage that learns and improves. Every project you complete with AI agents makes the next project faster. Every workflow you refine becomes a template. Every edge case you solve becomes training data for better judgment.

We are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of company: one human, supported by dozens of specialized AI agents, generating the output of a 50-person organization. This is not a thought experiment. We build products this way every day. A single founder can now handle product strategy, development, design, marketing, sales, support, and operations -- not by working 100-hour weeks, but by orchestrating agents that handle each domain.

The key insight is that the bottleneck was never talent. It was always coordination. When you remove the need to hire, manage, align, and communicate with dozens of humans, you remove the primary constraint on what a single person can build. The remaining constraint is judgment -- knowing what to build, for whom, and why. And that is precisely the thing that cannot be automated.

This is why the future belongs to opinionated builders. People with strong taste, deep domain knowledge, and the ability to articulate a clear vision. The execution layer is becoming commoditized. The thinking layer never will be.

If you are a founder reading this, understand what it means: you no longer need to raise money to hire a team. You need to raise your standards for what one person can accomplish.