Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, One person from partial participants Far from a new concept. It has made both “go” alone to cooperate, and the program of programming applications, social media, and e -commerce.
But what about the scaling of this work from one person to something more than the following-an institution with the dimensions of unicorn?
Historically, this was supposed to be a difficult task in an indelible way, given the required skills and resources, not only to expand the product scope but also to develop a large enough customer base. But artificial intelligence agents can cancel the determination of potential world pioneers.
Artificial intelligence agents revolve in the inclusion of human work in software, which frees a person from making more effort in less time. Agents can be appointed tasks, and they can make decisions of varying degrees of autonomy. Many artificial intelligence agents can cooperate in complementary tasks, paving the way for some real work completely independently independently.
in interview Last year with the co -founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian, Sam Altman predicted this delicate scenario.
“In my small group chat with my friends, the Executive Director of Technology, there is a reckless gathering for the first year that there is a company one billion dollars,” Altman said. “What could have been imagined without Amnesty International – and now (that) will happen.”
In a discussion at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, a committee of entrepreneurs and investors also discussed the possibility that these projects would be one billion dollars-and more importantly, what this might mean for the future of employment.
In humans we trust
Modern history reveals a large number of companies in one billion dollars. Microsoft received $ 2.5 billion to manufacture Minecraft Maker Mojang, which was reported 40 employees. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars when the messaging applications maker only had 55 employees. Two years ago, bought Facebook Instagram for only one billion dollars with only 13 employees In its ranks.
This proves that the Internet technology has already been born with huge companies with the minimum number of employees. But this is not the same person one person.
Campabaun qiuCEO of the AI ImbueAnd that builds agents who are able to think and codify, believes that this type of one -person company that Amnesty International will likely help to reach the big time is that which is largely self -self.
“I think the places where it will be easier, and first, are” Qaen “-the consumer or consumer-products that do not require a big difference to go to the market,” Cheo explained during the discussion episode. “I think going to the market is actually one of the places where it will be difficult to automate all these relationships with others.”
When it comes to generating sales, it is not always the best product; It is the people behind the product who did better in building confidence with customers. So if you need to sell your product proactively, you may still need employees.
“This confidence from a person to a person is still very essential and very important.”
BenjaminUCEO of Ai Development Company Bio, acted in the increasing role that artificial intelligence plays in his company and beyond.
“I think we live in one of the most exciting areas that must be construction companies,” said Liu in Davos. “We have a doctorate intelligence in our pockets, and we started to see artificial intelligence systems doing a whole team. I think in this world, the original companies of artificial intelligence have a very big advantage.”
However, Liu echoed QIU’s feelings: Although the possibility of huge companies from one real person, it may not actually be logical from a business or entrepreneurial perspective-and all this is due to the humanitarian state that appreciates relationships.
“The ability to get there before people think,” Liu said. “My view is that it will take a long time, because being a pioneer is a kind of journey, and you want a co -founder. Companies still start by humans. I think you want some people to share the journey with them.”
So the reality is, we may end up in a place where companies have always started: a founding team with complementary skills groups. But instead of expanding the increasing employment, they maintain this initial thinness with artificial intelligence factors who connect the gap.
But even if no one person from one person happens, there is a little question that will be hindered by the Agency AI, the workforce.
The era of artificial intelligence staff “
If this still looks hypothetical, think again. Agentic AI actually enters the workforce in the form of lawyers such as Harvey or software engineers such as Devin perception.
Artificial intelligence sales agents It also flourisheswith VC supported Companies like craftsmen He boasts that he wants to replace the human workforce The Billboard Dystopian advertisement in San Francisco shows.
Many other companies lay the foundation for the artificial intelligence agent for prosperity.
Lattice, HR platform and “Individuals Management”, which is valued at a value of $ 3 billion, is going further by giving “digital workers” Official employee recordsThis means that Amnesty International agents of their customers actually appear in the organizational scheme, full of personal image and a manager dedicated to them.
Sarah FranklinWho joined a poetry as an executive president last yearThis transition was described as a “wonderful new age for cooperation”, where humans and artificial intelligence agents work alongside. What this means is to manage these agents in a similar way to humans, to enhance transparency and accountability.
“We want to give priority to the success of people as the primary, and when you work with artificial intelligence agents, it is important to understand what they are appointed to do,” Frankelin explained in Davos. “Artificial intelligence does not say that it is more than that we need to determine the place of artificial intelligence clearly. Artificial intelligence speak that. “
But if companies can work on a large scale without any large human force, what does this mean for society? People need to earn money; They need the purpose – that society does not explode on itself if people are not able to work?
As with previous industrial revolutions, a The common refusal about the revolution of artificial intelligence It is that new jobs will appear in the long run – we don’t know what they are yet.
“There will be a lot of job creation, too,” Mitchell GreenThe founder of the investment company, Lead Edge Capital, in Davos. “If you are thinking about the time of the appearance of iPhone in 2007 – Uber and Airbnb are now $ 100 billion.
This does not mean that there will be no complete pile of pain in the short term. As we already see with the Chinese Ai Deepseek feeling, the rate of artificial intelligence is important in terms of cost to performance for artificial intelligence models. This may be a major discrimination against previous industrial and technological revolutions: we may not be able to adapt quickly enough.
“I think there is a lot of talking about re -training and appointment,” Liu said. “But there is something unique about the pace of developments and the extent of speed that these models improve, specifically as we see these artificial intelligence systems doing the entire difference.”
AIS Director
There was a general consensus between the painting that regardless of the rate of change, everyone will have to learn not only to live with artificial intelligence, but also learn how to use it to flourish in the workplace.
With you.com, for example, companies can access their application programming interface to bring in actual time search to any large language model (LLM). While it offers a group of its agents to specific tasks, companies It can also be created For their own Certified agentsChoose their favorite artificial intelligence model and give it instructions based on the data sources they need to be contacted.
“We, as executives, will be the first generation that runs people and Amnesty International,” Richard Sutcher He said in Davos. “But I believe that the most interesting change here is in fact that every individual shareholder, every employee, will become a manager of AIS. In this sense, everyone will become a kind of entrepreneur.”
So the jury is still out of whether we will see the company Unicorn from one person. However, it has already been proven that the principle behind the feelings has already been proven, as we saw with the rate of high value of madness to WhatsApp, which has succeeded in $ 345 million per employee at a time when Facebook dispersed.
Even NVIDIA, with the maximum market for more than $ 3 trillion, has a relatively high -ranking workforce 30,000 employees This is equivalent to about $ 100 million in value for each employee.
With the correct type of the company, the correct implementation, it is difficult to see how artificial intelligence will not push these numbers in dollars in the north, where the number of employees is heading in the south. But in all possibilities, it will only be related to whether there is a desire for one person to build alone, with enough knowledge of entrepreneurship to include a strong business model that can be defended that no other person can repeat at the drop of the hat.
But whether society will be ready to deal with this, it is a completely different question.
