One man uses AI to build a $1 billion company
Matt Gallagher, a 41-year-old self-taught computer programmer who grew up poor and living in trailer parks with a drug-addicted father, has become the first person to build a billion-dollar business by himself, using AI. An inveterate entrepreneur since his teens, he became intrigued with AI when ChatGPT was released in 2022. He saw artificial intelligence as the solution to a problem that had plagued many of his previous, middlingly successful ventures - namely, how scaling up a company typically meant scaling up employee headcount, to the point where labor costs destroyed profit margins.
