==12-2024 (2 minute read)== ---- ###### over the last half century, the number of employees needed for every 1M in usd revenue has been **going down drastically**. ![[Pasted image 20241219163325.png]] most of it you can owe to the advancements during the information age. you needed fewer people to do more things as we started automating mundane tasks, leaving many to focus on higher order abstractive tasks. in some ways, it is also a much needed reminder that we are tending towards a future where one person companies can be serious disruptors and beat incumbents. think of it this way, with advancements in ai, you need fewer and fewer people to execute on your vision with on-par performance to current workflows. >this eventually means that the only sustainable advantage is taste, distribution or speed. if the fastest iterating companies succeed; exploring the search space, accumulating information/scar tissue and iterating on it, might be the only way for you to advance in a search space of unknown global optima. why do we need frontend engineers working in tandem with product designers? what if designers could ship code? now imagine a future where you don't need an engineer, what if design could build great designs, ship it and scale it? one could potentially iterate faster on actual information while solving the principal agent problem. >now imagine what it means when a founder can run the entire company by himself and go from idea to execution alone? in some ways, we are tending to that future. if you look deeply, there are potential billion dollar companies waiting to be built on this model alone. ###### revenue per employee(adjusted for inflation) will continue to rise, as productivity gains amplify due to cross functional individuals rounding out their weaknesses with ai tools.