Sam Altman and his cronies have already blown past the ONE-PERSON billion-dollar company betting pool. Now? The bets are on something more radical: the first ZERO-PERSON billion-dollar company.Take a minute to process that. A zero-person company. Worth a bil.This ain’t sci-fi. It’s an era when tech CEO’s place bets on when you can type a prompt into a chatbot to conceive, build, and scale a company to billion-dollar valuation—without a single human employee.The timeline? Within a few years. But... to what end?• Who benefits when value is created without human participation?• What happens to work, purpose, and economic distribution?• Are we building tools that empower humanity, or replace it?The technology is inevitable. The choices we make around it are not.The one-person company was a way to leverage human potential. The zero-person company is something else... or is it? If a useful product or service makes life better for humanity, then does it matter who made it?ZERO-PERSON BILLION-DOLLAR companies — a harbinger of abundance or a caution tale in-the-making? I welcome your thoughts.

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