John Rush

Independent Founders will eat Software Corporations.
 
 I'll convince you in 15 sentences.
 
 1) Pre-internet media, music, news & content was costly, and consumers paid for it.
 
 2) The internet made content creation and distribution cheap.
 
 3) Free user-generated content disrupted traditional businesses.
 
 4) Software creation is expensive.
 
 5) Developers are costly because they translate English to JavaScript.
 
 6) LLMs are lowering the process of writing code to almost zero eventually.
 
 7) Lower costs will lead to exponential growth in the number of new software solutions.
 
 8) Traditional software companies will be replaced by independent founders (just like it happened in journalists. e.g., Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, MrBeast, or Lex Fridmad).
 
 9) These founders will be “distributors” first. Their key talent will be distribution and winning attention.
 
 10) We can already see how Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, MrBeast, and Lex Friedman have stronger distribution than multi-billion corporations. It looks surreal, but it’s facts.
 
 11) AI will change software like the internet changed media.
 
 12) Successful founders of the future won’t be technical-first, just like the new gen of music artists didn’t study music for a decade as their predecessors.
 
 13) The most scarce skill for the new gen is story-telling.
 
 14) MrBeast has walked this path, and now, most top video content creators aren't corporations but indie video creators (see the screenshot).
 
 15) I bet my life on this prediction by building tools for independent software founders to build, grow, and monetize their businesses.