How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built

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The first solo-founder unicorn will be built by leveraging AI to manage a large fleet of contractors and agents, scaling one person's coordination capacity.
Coase's theory explains firms as a way to economize on transaction costs, but the gig economy failed to create solo unicorns due to coordination bottlenecks, not transaction prices.
AI coordination layers can absorb communication and integration tasks, allowing a solo founder to oversee many external relationships without attention overload.
The minimum viable firm size shrinks toward one for coordination-heavy, collaboration-light businesses, while firms remain essential for work requiring trust, deep collaboration, or regulation.

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