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Vamshi Yadav
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The era of ultra-lean, high-impact startups is here. We’re witnessing a quiet revolution, one where tiny teams (and sometimes even solo founders) are building multi-million and even billion-dollar businesses. Y Combinator recently highlighted that founders are raising less capital, a clear signal that the "build fast, burn less" mindset is gaining momentum. Even Silicon Valley is shifting gears. Startups are scaling faster and smarter, without bloated teams or massive burn rates. 🚀 Sam Altman once said we’d eventually see billion-dollar businesses built by a single person. Looks like we’re edging closer to that future: Some game-changing examples: Valuations: ▪️ Safe Superintelligence – $5B (10 people) ▪️ Adept – $1B (25 people) ▪️ StackBlitz – $700M (28 people) ▪️ AnySphere – $2.6B (30 people) ▪️ Sierra – $4.5B (135 people) ▪️ Together AI – $3.3B (140 people) ARR growth: ▪️ Cursor – $100M ARR in under 2 years (20 people) ▪️ Lovable – $17M ARR in 90 days (15 people) ▪️ Aragon.ai – $10M ARR in 2 years (9 people) ▪️ Tally – $2M+ ARR (5 people) The message is loud and clear: - You don’t need a 500-person org to make an impact. - All it takes is the right idea, a killer execution, and a lean team obsessed with solving a real problem. This is how the next generation of global companies is being built, small teams, big ambitions, massive outcomes.
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