> The first solo-founder unicorn isn’t built by a genius doing the work of three hundred people. It’s built by one person sitting at the center of a coordination layer that does the work the three hundred people mostly used to do... What’s new is AI that scales a single person’s coordination capacity, attacking exactly the cost the gig economy couldn’t.

Two problems with that:

1. AI isn't free, and how cost-effective it is remains to be seen.

2. AI can't currently really do the full job of one person, let alone three hundred [1]. And when it is able to do the job of three hundred people, the very structure of the economy is likely to change so much that any transfer of details from the existing economy to that imagined one may well be irrelevant. In other words, at the point AI is able to do something so transformative, it's unreasonable to think that the structure of one company will be revolutionised without everything around it also being revolutionised.

It stands to reason that the economic value that one person can do with a relatively cheap tool will be similar to whatever one person could do with a relatively cheap tool at any other point in time. An increase in productivity in the presence of competition lowers the price of the product by about the same factor as the increase in productivity. People have more stuff, but not necessarily more money. A person with a laptop and a 3D printer might be a "unicorn" if they were transported back in time to 1526, but it doesn't make them a unicorn today because many other people can do that, too.

[1]: So much of the old grunt work in the knowledge economy is already automated (typing, copying, posting letters), and so three hundred people are probably doing some non-trivial work already, and replacing them means AI with much better capabilities than we have today.