Theme

The boundary of the firm reaches one person

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The First One-Person AI Conglomerates (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Every coordination technology has moved the boundary of the firm — rail and telegraph made it larger, the internet made it smaller. The first one to drive coordination cost toward a single person’s attention changes the minimum viable size of an organization, not just its productivity.

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The boundary of the firm reaches one person
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/coordination-cost-collapse
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- The First One-Person AI Conglomerates — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/the-first-one-person-ai-conglomerates
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