How To Make $1B In 2026 As A One-Person Team

I know. You are reading this title and you are already thinking that this is ridiculous.

You're right.

But it's true.

In 2026 someone is going to make $1B and they are going to do it as a one-person team.

And 2026 is the first year this is going to be possible.

How is a one-person team going to make $1B in 2026? Why is this suddenly possible when previously it wasn't? What skill will this person have that others don't? How can you put yourself in position to be this person?

I will explain everything right now.

Let's get into it.

How a One-Person Team Will Make $1B in 2026

Up until now there has been a proven way to create value extremely quickly.

You take a promising idea, you raise capital from investors, and you spend that money speed running the promising idea.

Promising idea + capital + spend money to speed run

And what do you spend most of the capital on? People.

If you were Christopher Columbus you raised capital from the Spanish Crown and spent it on sailors, if you're Uber you spent it on engineers, sales people, and drivers.

And you NEED to hire all of these people because you as one person can not actually handle the workload. One person can not code everything, do all the sales calls, manage the finances, etc, especially when you are growing quickly and need to interface with potentially thousands if not millions of people every single day.

AND people are expensive. Engineers can cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And it's not just the salaries, you also need to cover health insurance, 401ks, weekends, holidays, sick days, culture, and everything else people need.

If you don't have a mountain of cash you may only be able to get a handful of people. Or none.

But this is all changing. Right now. In real time. Extremely fast.

If you blink you will miss it.

Right now it is possible to hire employees for so cheap that even a child with some lunch money could be running a big team.

You, right now, could have your own team. You might even be able to have an unimaginably large team.

Why? Because AI has suddenly gotten so smart and capable that it can do anything a person can do on a computer or phone, but smarter, faster, and for pennies.

And you talk it them in english. And they complete tasks for you that you could never have done on your own.

You can say anything from "write me an email that is very convincing and will sell my product" to "make me an app that helps me track my finances" to "create a video of this really complicated and specific thing", and the AI can do it almost perfectly instantly.

These are called AI agents, AI's you can give a task to, and anyone can tap into them.

• For $20 a month you can control the power of hundreds of people.

• For a few hundred dollars a month you can control the power of a thousand people.

• For thousands of dollars a month you can control the power ten thousand people.

• There exists the capacity for you to control the power of a near infinite amount of people. At this point you are only limited by the resources of the earth.

“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the Earth.” - Archimedes (Naval)

You can hire them all instantly. Or fire them. Or clone them.

They can work however you want on anything you want.

They don't sleep.

They respect you as the boss.

They will always do the thing.

You can have the power of an army for next to nothing.

And you can hire them right now.

The only question is - Will you?

The Two Skills You Need To Make $1b in 2026

The first skill is simple. And it is a resource that anyone in the world can have without asking for permission or needing to earn it.

The first skill you need to make $1b in 2026 is agency.

You need to be able to move. To getup. To make decisions. To pick a direction.

To go.

You need to be able to do the thing.

You need to flow.

And those who can tap into this with the most intensity, and point it in the right place, will win big.

And what do you point it to? That leads us to our second skill.

The second skill you need to make $1b in 2026 is proficiency with tasking AI agents.

I don't know what your current skillset is, or knowledge is, of AI agents, but let me tell you one powerful fact.

The only thing holding you back from being a master of AI agents, aka a master of commanding legions of super smart task doers, is your agency to do so.

Right now. You can do this right now.

The AI agents do not take a PhD to be able to use. You do not need to learn to code. You just need to learn how to talk to AI agents and because these are so new that is a skill where you are at the starting line at the same time as everyone else.

Those with the agency to learn will be able to harness power like never before seen in the world. You. Right now.

How To Use AI Agents

You're all fired up. Now what?

Go tell an AI agent to do something. Get a task done.

Work at it every day. Treat it like a workout. Break it into sessions.

Put it the work and the skills will compound.

First, you need to freely explore the capabilities of AI agents and your capabilities of commanding them. Do not wait to have a reason to use them, just use them right this second for the most frivolous tasks. Just tell them to do anything.

Your barrier here is not in how long it takes you to come up with a worthwhile idea, it is how long it takes you to actually tell an AI agent to do something.

Your job is to do it right now (actually).

Here is a list of AI agents you can go experiment with right now.

1. Build an app with Cursor, v0, replit, Claude, Google, or lovable.

2. Research a topic with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, or Gemini.

3. Setup automations with Gumloop, n8n, or Zapier.

4. Chat with your computer with Claude Cowork.

5. Tell your browser to do things for you with Claude Chrome Extension or Atlas.

6. Clone your voice with Elevenlabs

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7. Make fantastic videos and images with Higgsfield or Fal.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg.

Don't pause to feel overwhelmed.

Just click one of these and do the thing.

Have the agency to tap into the greatest power ever created by humans.

You can do this.

And you are going to get a high from it. Like runners high, but for using AI agents. When you realize what you can accomplish, and how fast, your mind will be blown and you will become addicting to learning how to do more.

Lean into that.

If you're new to this, and you want to experience this, go to lovable and say "make me a game" and just watch what happens.

What Now?

Have agency. Harness AI agents.

Go.

You can transform any business by using AI agents and you can do it by yourself.

If you really want to leverage this power you should use AI agents to create your own AI agents that you then sell to other people.

To get you inspired, here are a few examples of AI agent services you could create:

You can do this.