The Race to Zero

Sam Altman and his cronies have already blown past the ONE-PERSON billion-dollar company betting pool. Now? The bets are on something more radical: the first ZERO-PERSON billion-dollar company.

Take a minute to process that. A zero-person company. Worth a bil.

This ain’t sci-fi. It’s an era when tech CEO’s place bets on when you can type a prompt into a chatbot to conceive, build, and scale a company to billion-dollar valuation—without a single human employee.

The timeline? Within a few years. But... to what end?

• Who benefits when value is created without human participation?
• What happens to work, purpose, and economic distribution?
• Are we building tools that empower humanity, or replace it?

The technology is inevitable. The choices we make around it are not.

The one-person company was a way to leverage human potential. The zero-person company is something else... or is it? If a useful product or service makes life better for humanity, then does it matter who made it?

ZERO-PERSON BILLION-DOLLAR companies — a harbinger of abundance or a caution tale in-the-making? I welcome your thoughts.