Why your next competitor is a small team with AI agents

The standard business school answer is that the most money lives in the largest companies. Bigger capital, bigger spend, bigger headcount, bigger moat. That answer has been right for two centuries. I think it has about five years left, ten if it gets lucky. The shift is already starting. Small teams, sometimes one person, are running operations that used to require a few hundred. Not "doing the work of a few hundred people" in the slide-deck sense. Actually shipping product, serving customers, c