The AI-enabled entrepreneur

I started my first company at 25 with three co-founders. My job was simple: talk to users, translate their needs into requirements, keep customers happy. The engineers built. The designer designed.

Five years later, we started Aesthetic. Everyone had grown - designers could code, engineers could manage products, and I could finally build stuff myself.

Then GPT-4 dropped. I built a complete web app solo, then hired a freelancer for $10k to finish it. Pre-AI, this would've cost $50k minimum.

$10k vs $50k changes everything. Those small product ideas I used to ignore? Now they're viable $1k-$10k monthly revenue businesses. When you own 100%, that matters.

The numbers tell the story: 330k new businesses launch every quarter in the US. By 2030, it'll hit 1M. Why? The barriers are crumbling.

AI isn't replacing jobs - it's creating entrepreneurs. While some roles will vanish, many more will transform. AI handles the parts, humans drive the vision.

This shift isn't subtle. I'm 200x more capable as a developer than three years ago. Maybe I'm 2-3x better naturally, but AI tools gave me a 10-20x boost.

The question isn't whether AI will change entrepreneurship. The question is: What will you build with it?

Thanks to Andrew Look and Sumon Sadhu for the feedback.