AI coding tools could bring us the ‘one-employee unicorn’

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Coming soon: The one-person, billion-dollar startup

We’re beginning to see a new kind of lean startup company, enabled in large part by new AI agents. Since these companies rely far less on people power, some of them—the ones addressing real market needs—are achieving extraordinary revenue-per-employee numbers.