GoKawiilEntrepreneur founder details AI-first playbook used to run 20-person company against larger rivals
An opinion piece by the founder of a 20-person AI company describes how the firm uses AI tools to compete against much larger, better-funded competitors. The author cites Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's comments to CNBC about sub-ten-person teams reaching $10 million in revenue, and the $80 million sale of eight-employee app builder Base44 to Wix, as evidence small teams can scale with AI. The piece also references a GitClear study of 211 million lines of code that found copy-pasted code surpassing refactored code in 2024, linking the trend to AI coding assistants.