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Why solo founders with AI will dominate the next decade of technology entrepreneurship.
The venture capital model was built for a world where building software required large teams and significant capital. You needed money to hire engineers, designers, and marketers. You needed an office, benefits, and HR infrastructure. The minimum viable team for a serious software company was five to ten people. The minimum viable budget was half a million dollars.
That world no longer exists. A solo founder with the right AI tooling can now produce output that rivals a team of ten. Not by working ten times harder, but by leveraging AI agents that handle development, design, testing, marketing, and support. The capital requirement drops from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands. The time to market drops from years to weeks.
This changes the economics of entrepreneurship fundamentally. When the cost of building a product drops by 90%, you do not need venture capital. When you do not need venture capital, you do not need to give up equity. When you do not give up equity, you retain control. When you retain control, you can build the company you actually want to build, not the company investors want you to build.
We see this pattern emerging everywhere. Solo founders building profitable SaaS products in months. One-person agencies delivering enterprise-quality work. Individual creators building media empires with AI-powered content production. The common thread is not the AI itself but the leverage it provides to a single focused individual.
The objection is always scale. "One person cannot scale a company." But this confuses scaling effort with scaling output. One person cannot do the work of a hundred people. But one person orchestrating AI agents can produce the output of a hundred people. The work scales through the agents. The vision and judgment remain with the founder.
The next decade will be defined by solo founders who build companies that previous generations would have considered impossible for a single person. Not because these founders are superhuman, but because their tools are.