If you extend this argument to the limit, you end up with individuals running entire companies by themselves. The share of solo-founder startups has almost doubled in the last few years, and the first examples of businesses with a handful of employees generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue have emerged. Henri Shi, who spent nearly a decade growing super.com into a $150m ARR business, is now tracking his progress towards Altman’s one-person billion dollar company goal on a public leaderboard. He reports an average of $2.8 million in revenue per employee, coincidentally the same as Apple, the most valuable publicly traded US company of the past two decades. Companies like Midjourney, with its 40 employees and $500m of yearly revenues, represent a structural shift, not an anomaly. These companies are now full of high-agency individuals carrying the work of several teams, and are easily competing with much larger companies.