The One-Person Company Spending $1M a Year on AI
Earlier this month, the CEO of Perplexity mentioned something in passing that deserves more attention than it got. Aravind Srinivas said there’s one solopreneur — literally a one-person company — spending upwards of a million dollars a year on the product, and making about $3 million a year doing it. The story got retold as an AI-leverage anecdote. One person! Seven figures of spend! Automate everything! Which it is. But the retelling skips the only number that matters, because the two mentioned in the same sentence are not the story. The story is their ratio. ...