TechnologyAIOpinionAltman is right: The next billion-dollar firm could have one employeeOpenAI CEO Sam Altman points out that techies used to laugh at wannabe entrepreneurs. Today, a non-technologist with a brainwave can execute and build a company all by themselves.Rohan SilvaTechnology investorBack in 1937, the British economist and Nobel laureate Ronald Coase asked an interesting question.Why do companies bother hiring employees, he wondered, when they could outsource most of their work to the wider market? To put it another way, why do businesses grow to the size they do?Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Latest In TechnologyFetching latest articlesMost Viewed In Technology