There's a common narrative that in the age of AI, everyone's going to be a founder. This vastly overestimates how many people want to spend to much time in tech, let alone build their own software or be a founder.

Every piece of software is being deconstructed not by features but by increasingly niche-driven use cases. So while it takes a smaller team to create a product/company, the TAM is necessarily smaller.

Of course there will be more founders, smaller startups, and more companies — and more software that isn’t built/owned by companies. Not everything will be productized. There will be many, many more folks who will “build software” for themselves to simply do their jobs.

The truth is, this is already happening in most companies whether we know it or not.

The world doesn't need more founders. It needs better tools for good work. Sometimes that takes a founder; others, it just takes a creative, motivated mind with the right tools and timing.

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