AI竞赛：争夺首家十亿美元一人公司的头衔

For most modern business history, billion-dollar companies require armies of engineers and product managers, sprawling offices, and years of work, learning, and investment. Instagram disrupted that assumption in 2012 when it sold to Facebook for roughly $1 billion with just 13 employees. Transition to the year 2026, where AI is pushing this reorientation even further. In April 2026, the New York Times reported that Matthew Gallagher, a 41-year-old self-taught developer from Los Angeles, online telehealth/ D2C business Medvi, which has generated $401 million in first-year sales with his brother, $20,000, and more than a dozen AI tools, and they are reportedly on track to achieve 1.8 billion target this year. …