What unique advantage does AI give founders today?

Brian Chesky

Co-founder & CEO · Airbnb

Start a business with 1‑3 people

Brian Chesky says AI lets just 1 to 3 people start a whole business, forecasting millions to tens of millions of small companies because building a company is far easier now than 20 years ago.

John Brewton

Writer & Founder · Operating by John Brewton

Democratizes startup creation

John Brewton says AI can democratize the ability to start a company, though it may concentrate the rewards of running one.

Sam Altman

Chief Executive Officer · OpenAI

Lower friction

Sam Altman believes lowering friction a little makes people build way more.

Tom Bilyeu

CEO · Impact Theory

Massive productivity boost

Tom Bilyeu says AI creates a massive productivity boost, because it is a massive increase in the productivity of the most productive people and the ultimate productivity increase per person.

Jason Calacanis

Bestie · All-In Podcast

5× productivity

Jason Calacanis says AI gives about five times the productivity, pointing to people in his own company who adopted AI at the top of the stack as five to ten times more effective than non-AI users.

Andrew Ng

Founder · Deeplearning.Ai

Build fast

Andrew Ng says his answer for founders is to learn AI and build fast, talking to customers to develop judgment about what’s worth the speed, since building costs have plummeted and judgment is the constraint.

Lars Grønnegaard Hansen

CPO and Co-Founder · Dreamdata

Rapid high‑fidelity prototyping

Lars Grønnegaard Hansen says AI enables rapid high-fidelity prototyping, letting teams build something very close to the real product and show it to customers at a level of effort that was previously impossible.

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Matt Taylor

Founder · Trepo

Faster development

Matt Taylor says the opportunity AI creates is faster development, since today's tools have dramatically increased the speed of building anything.

Patrick Collison

CEO · Stripe

Launch more ambitious startups quickly

Patrick Collison says AI makes spinning up an organization with many capabilities much easier, so founders can start much more aggressive and ambitious things up front.