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Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn?

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Re: Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn?

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I know of two: Craigslist and Plenty Of Fish.

Are they 1-person projects? Also, Minecraft was build solo by Notch, I guess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojang_Studios helped with minecraft, even before the MS purchase.

As an employee of Mojang Studios, Jens Bergensten had been co-developing Minecraft with Persson since 2010.

Re: Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn?

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This means that you will be dealing with 20M humans and 400k paying ones. They come with a lot of requests, questions and demands. From many jurisdictions. Not to forget tax laws. At some point you will find it easier and cheaper to integrate rather than buy every service. And maybe even more fun to work with a great team.

I am assuming that lots of things will be automated (maybe even using AI). Like the legal things, support, payment processing and so on. I'm just trying to elaborate on Sam Altman's idea https://fortune.com/2024/02/04/sam-altman-one-person-unicorn...

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