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The $1B Startup Team of 2025: Just 5 People, Powered by AI - By Greg isenberg 1 engineer. 1 designer. 1 product lead. 1 growth lead. 1 ops person that's it. the engineer starts the day in Cursor. they paste in a product idea, and Cursor instantly g

Billion-Dollar Startups With Bare-Bones Teams: Silicon Valley is seeing a boom in minimalist unicorns. • Safe Superintelligence: $5B, 10 people • Adept: $1B, 25 people • Midjourney: $10B, 49 people Meanwhile, OpenAI operates with 2,500 employees -

google has 8.5B searches per day. chatgpt took just two years to reach 1B

Many say starting a new company is hard, then there are people who say making it successful is hard, and then there are people who say scaling it is hard. But I say 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 is hard. It took Uber 14, Airbnb 14, Amazon 9

Know it quick: Tavel’s Hierarchy of Engagement - The model for building $1B+ companies. > Start with Level 1: Get users to complete the core action
 > Move to Level 2: Make the product better with use- users stay because they have more to lose
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