
Leonardo Drici
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I lost a successful company I cofounded with 100 employees due to covid changing the business environment overnight. I’m proud of all the great jobs we created. And that is the one reason I would want successful businesses to hire as many people as possible. But I don’t miss the 15 years of stress in making that big payroll. You are very smart to optimize your business the way you do. And I am now doing the same. Contractors all the way. Never again do I want to deal with payroll. But I feel bad about it. The US used to have a gazillion great jobs by small businesses, and PE firms and onerous regulations that only enterprise could deal with have taken a huge bite out of this ecosystem. No idea if official stats back me up, but anecdotally it feels that way. Hopefully AI creates more jobs than it takes away. But if not, then the $1B solo founder companies could be a sad outcome.


they do but the math here is tricky lets say they charge $200 a month and if you ran it to max usage limits you could spend $2000 but in practice on average across all users they spent $500 that's probably break even for them internally and allows for a wide range from 0 -> $2000 in usage but if something causes a shift up in average and it's now $600 they lose $100 per person they are stuck deciding whether they lower the usage limits for everyone or just try to curb the behavior that's pushing it up

















