| ▲ | disgruntledphd2 2 days ago |
| > The first billion-dollar solopreneur likely is going to happen at some point I'm pretty sure that this has already happened, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_of_Fish Not quite 1bn (but 575mn in 2015 dollars) and mostly done by one person. |
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| ▲ | lostmsu 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| He began hiring in 2018. Also, "Plenty of Fish uses a Microsoft-based platform for itself, including IIS, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL". |
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| ▲ | disgruntledphd2 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > He began hiring in 2018. 2008 I think (from the wikipedia article). I met my now wife on the platform in 2013. I do think it counts, and it's important to note that even pre-AI, software has incredible leverage for small teams/individual people. | | | |
| ▲ | Jeremy1026 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | So if I make a website that uses Nginx, Ruby, and Postgres, does that mean that I don't get credit for making it since I use other tools? | | |
| ▲ | lostmsu 2 days ago | parent [-] | | No, I just brought attention to the stack because it's not "sexy". |
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