Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company
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#2I can see it happening. You have to utilize a lot of other one person startup services, so ultimately it’s a still a virtual company.
But you won’t have to be beholden to anyone other than the customer.
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#3I can see it happening. You have to utilize a lot of other one person startup services, so ultimately it’s a still a virtual company. But you won’t have to be beholden to anyone other than the customer.
You almost certainly want to have a partner you can depend on to backfill and probably a few people who you have vetted and aren't just a relatively anonymous email. I don't really buy that it makes sense to just be a single-person company at that scale even with external services.
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#4I'd predict a one person unicorn company potentionally possible, but this will be an inflated valuation company backed by someone, who is willing to prove a point. Not a company that delivers a great product and can be sustainable in the long run.
Purely from the operational perspective, you need to handle support, you need to handle billing, to handle lawsuits, to handle infrastructure, to handle incidents... and still have a good idea of what's going on.
So no, not sure it's happening.
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#5I can see it happening. You have to utilize a lot of other one person startup services, so ultimately it’s a still a virtual company. But you won’t have to be beholden to anyone other than the customer.
The dream of AI: eliminating all human relationships not mediated by a B2B SaaS contract.
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#8I can see it happening. You have to utilize a lot of other one person startup services, so ultimately it’s a still a virtual company. But you won’t have to be beholden to anyone other than the customer.
If it were really pulling in that kind of revenue, surely you would need/want in house accounting/tax.
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#9Define your terms.
Do contractors count? Do patent lawyers count?
Do outsourcing services to other companies count?
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#10For consumer products you're going to have other people doing your manufacturing and marketing (as in "interface with consumer") for you even if they aren't employees -- e.g. Amazon drivers and such.