The naive take is that AI lets firms dissolve into the market. The gig economy already tried that and failed. What changed is the coordinator, not the price of a transaction.
Im confused why this person seems to think a single person firm is some sort of mythical unicorn that might someday be distilled out of a larger business. There are already millions of one person enterprises running all over the world, its probably the most common business type by raw numbers. Help answering their emails probably not whats actually holding most of them back. If you actually look at it from the bottom up, trying to scale a sole operator up, the limiting factor is usually going to be that the person has to actually deliver the valuable thing your business provides. They have to show up and take pictures of the wedding, mow the lawn, sign off on someone’s tax forms, sit down and film a podcast, or whatever. Removing the friction around that would be great for efficiency, but only to the point that it frees up more time for value creation, and if your AI is able to automate their value creation process itself then the value collapses.
This whole thing reads like someone who has their head so far up the ass of management they forgot that there are actually little people at the bottom of every company that actually provide the value that makes the money.
Im confused why this person seems to think a single person firm is some sort of mythical unicorn that might someday be distilled out of a larger business. There are already millions of one person enterprises running all over the world, its probably the most common business type by raw numbers. Help answering their emails probably not whats actually holding most of them back. If you actually look at it from the bottom up, trying to scale a sole operator up, the limiting factor is usually going to be that the person has to actually deliver the valuable thing your business provides. They have to show up and take pictures of the wedding, mow the lawn, sign off on someone’s tax forms, sit down and film a podcast, or whatever. Removing the friction around that would be great for efficiency, but only to the point that it frees up more time for value creation, and if your AI is able to automate their value creation process itself then the value collapses.
This whole thing reads like someone who has their head so far up the ass of management they forgot that there are actually little people at the bottom of every company that actually provide the value that makes the money.