Back in January 2024, OpenAI’s Sam Altman captured headlines for his speculation at the coming of the world’s first one-person billion-dollar company, enabled by advances in AI. This follows a series of notably low-headcount businesses reaching this status in the past, including Instagram’s 2012 sale to Facebook (with a 13-person headcount).
Sam Altman’s “one-person unicorn” and the future of the office