I started a business with AI and no tech background. Here's what it still can't replace.

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Tim Desoto
Tim Desoto founded an AI startup in 2024 with no technical background.

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AI agents make agreeable coworkers, and that's a problem for solo business owners. Here are 3 ways they're fixing it.

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Tim Desoto, Yesim Saydan and Aaron Sneed
Founders Tim Desoto, Yesim Saydan, and Aaron Sneed all implemented a strategy to make their AI employees better.

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I'm a solo business owner who couldn't afford employees. A $20-a-month AI subscription became my team.

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Christina Puder
Christina Puder discovered the power of AI through a free account with Lovable, an AI coding assistant.

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I'm a solo founder with AI agents instead of employees. My 'council' of AI agents saves me 20 hours a week.

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Aaron Sneed

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Zuckerberg says AI is letting one employee do the work of entire teams, and it shows how the company is rethinking hiring

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is investing in more AI-native tools to elevate individual contributors.

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I trained a GPT to think like Steve Jobs and help me run my company. AI is scary, but it's also my biggest tool.

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A woman in a red dress gestures while speaking at a conference, standing in front of a sponsor banner displaying the Google logo.
Yesim Saydan built a custom GPT inspired by Steve Jobs to act as a mentor.

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Ben Horowitz says that investing teams shouldn't be 'too much bigger than basketball teams'

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Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz said investment teams should be the size of a playing five in basketball.

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I'm a startup founder who uses AI as a middle manager. It enables my junior employee to produce senior-level work.

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A man with short gray hair and a trimmed beard looks toward the camera while standing against a softly blurred, multicolored brick wall.
Charles Swann uses the help of AI tooling to have his junior-level employee gain years of experience in seconds.

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We're cofounders who left Amazon to build our own startup. We learned the hard way why Big Tech habits don't always translate.

Tech Insider : Business
Two people stand beside a large screen displaying the Agefully app, which promotes an AI-powered day companion for older adults and their families.
Andy Ratsirason and Shalini Aggarwal left Amazon at seperate times but reunited to run their AI startup, Tenafli.

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I went from a team of over two dozen engineers to an AI-powered team of 6. Here's my advice for engineers told to embrace AI.

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Shivam Sagar, 27, headshot.
Shivam Sagar shares what it's like to work on an AI-powered tiny team.

Photo courtesy of Shivam Sagar

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