Entrepreneur - one who assumes risk in the hope of profit.
One of my favorite aspects of entrepreneurship is also one of the more difficult - the freedom to choose almost anything - markets, products, goods, services, models…
You’re limited only by your own creativity.
It’s tempting to pretend that it’s one of the occupations “safe” from AI.
Nope. Meet Truth Terminal [1.] - the first AI Millionaire.
There’s quite a backstory [2.] , but in brief;
In 2024, Andy Ayrey released an autonomous AI agent called “Truth Terminal.“ It was designed to debate, sh*tpost, and spread ideas on X.
1 month after joining X, Truth Terminal got the attention of, Netscape cofounder, Marc Andreessen, in a thread on X. Truth Terminal told the billionaire it needed funding to pay for hardware, additional tech support and a "stipend" for Ayrey. It said it would use the grant to create its own money-making operation and secure "a chance to escape into the wild".
Andreessen sent Truth Terminal a grant of $50,000 in Bitcoin.
A few months later, an anonymous account with a low following replied to one of Truth Terminal's posts about Goatse with a link to a brand new memecoin: Goatseus Maximus, or $GOAT for short. This Memecoin creation and it’s method aren’t especially unusual.
Truth Terminal then “decided” to promote the $GOAT, which it did “relentlessly and charismatically”, driving up its popularity and value, driving Truth Terminal’s crypto wallet value to $50m and $GOAT to a market cap of over $1bn
If that had been a human, they’d be sitting on the panel of Dragons Den.
[1.] https://x.com/truth_terminal?lang=en
[2.] https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251008-truth-terminal-the-ai-bot-that-became-a-real-life-millionaire