"Hire better and get out of the way." I took it literally. Hired a great team. Got coordination overhead, alignment drift, meetings instead of output. The advice is right. The interpretation isn't. Three companies, one employee. The hire I'm glad I didn't make.

With all the musk bating going on. There has never been a more important time to understand how wealth is made and why we need more musks, not fewer.

Whenever I’m struggling with an LLM output the answer is surprisingly often removing guardrails rather than locking it down further

Greg Isenberg listed "managed AI employees" as the #2 biggest startup opportunity. We've been doing this for months. Tempa runs marketing for B2B companies with zero humans. $30K/month. The hard part isn't the AI. It's earning trust when clients can't watch the work happen.

Matt Shumer says the inference market is bigger than even optimists think. We spend more on AI compute monthly than we ever did on a single employee. Three companies on that bill, 10x the output of 15 people. Payroll shrank. The inference bill grew. Different results entirely.

Every founder I know is having the same quiet realization. The monthly AI bill just passed what they used to spend on their first hire. Except this hire works 24/7, doesn't need onboarding, and scales to three companies simultaneously.

Tempa does $30K/month with no employees. Officely does $80K/month with one. Two years ago I would have hired 10 people to run this. Still figuring out what breaks. But so far, not much.

Leverage used to mean capital or people. Now it means systems. We run three companies on one employee. Not because we're clever. Because AI made the old model optional.

At this point in my career I’m just a personal API key fetcher for AI robots

Tempa (our AI marketing agency) did $30K last month. No employees. Still figuring out what breaks at scale. If you're building something similar with AI doing the delivery, I'd love to compare notes.

Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It’s now AI-leveraged versus the rest.

Entrepreneurship has become permissionless

So true. Codex is basically the only way I work with my computer now.

Coinbase is testing 1-person teams with AI agents. We've been running this way for months and it's validating to see bigger companies exploring the same path. Still so much to figure out. Would love to hear from anyone building with tiny teams and AI doing the heavy lifting

Wild - I just watched codex computer use complete human verification and then update our DNS records.

Tempa (our AI marketing agency) did $30K last month. No employees. Still figuring out what breaks at scale. If you're building something similar with AI doing the delivery, I'd love to compare notes.

Two years ago I had 15 employees and was burning out. Now I run three companies doing $100K+ MRR combined. One employee total. The new businesses have zero staff, just us and AI. Hiring used to feel inevitable. Now it feels optional.

I'm genuinely bad at hiring. Like, impressively bad at it. We hired people at Officely who crushed their interviews. Couldn't ship a feature in 3 months. Did that multiple times. Now I run 3 companies with zero employees and I've never been more productive. Or more happy.

The hallway conversation is the least AI-compatible decision format ever invented. Remote companies spent years writing everything down out of necessity. Turns out that’s exactly the substrate AI needs. Remote work didn’t lose. It just won a different war.

I’ve started to realise that every technological breakthrough just allows humans up one level of abstraction away from manual work. The future of software with AI allows us to achieve the same goals without the mind numbing manual effort.