Might "one-person-enterprises" become widespread ... changing societies, and the lives within?

A.I. may bring about a revolutionary new landscape of "unicorns."

Excerpt: Anthropic’s Mike Krieger believes AI is dissolving the boundaries between idea and execution, making solo founders more powerful than ever.

When Mike Krieger helped launch Instagram in 2010 as a cofounder, building something as simple as a photo filter took his team weeks of engineering time and tough trade-offs. Now, as chief product officer at Anthropic, he’s watching early-stage startup founders accomplish far more in far less time—sometimes over a single weekend. Thanks to intuitive agentic AI models (or AI agents), founders are experimenting with product, code, and business strategies, often without needing to hire specialized team members.

“When I think back to Instagram’s early days, our famously small team had to make painful decisions—either explore adding video or focus on our core creativity,” Krieger tells Fast Company. “With AI agents, startups can now run experiments in parallel and build products faster than ever before.”

To him, it signals a seismic shift: the rise of agentic entrepreneurship.

Enterprises can supercharge engineering teams while individuals with bold ideas but no technical background can finally bring their visions to life.

“At Anthropic, 90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how we build products. Recently, Claude helped me prototype something in 25 minutes that would have taken me six hours,” Krieger says. “I see founders who tried every model, couldn’t get their startup to work, then with Claude, their startup suddenly works.”'