I'd predict a one person unicorn company potentionally possible, but this will be an inflated valuation company backed by someone, who is willing to prove a point. Not a company that delivers a great product and can be sustainable in the long run.

Purely from the operational perspective, you need to handle support, you need to handle billing, to handle lawsuits, to handle infrastructure, to handle incidents... and still have a good idea of what's going on.

So no, not sure it's happening.

I agree with the article that it won't happen because it's just natural to hire your way out of some pain.

You'd need someone who cares enough to make a point to a very niche community but doesn't care about the product enough to hire, and I think the two circles don't overlap.

... but if it did happen I expect it'd be a NSFW AI chatbot/companion, not VC-backable (or at least not openly)

There are some people building those that don't want or care about building the best product: they've realized if you get the cheapest most heavily quanitzed model around to produce NSFW content and tell a lonely person they're loved, they'll give you increasing amounts of money.

> but this will be an inflated valuation company backed by someone, who is willing to prove a point.

People don't generally spend $1B to prove a point.

They'll spend it on a network of users that is genuinely that valuable though. That's what Zuck did in dropping $1B on Insta.

And it seems entirely possible that if Insta were built today, it could be done with a single person.

Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can probably be made by LLM so if you have a good idea for cryptocurrency or some crypto token and you can vibe code it with LLM, perhaps it can reach a $1bn market cap.