1 year, 130 people, 52 unicorns. The same bottleneck every time, and it isn’t what you think.

Hey there, digital warriors! ⚔️

Three years ago, ChatGPT burst onto the scene… and the world lost its mind! 🤪 Billions, then trillions, poured into AI. Everyone scrambled to “transform.” Yet here we are, three years later, still staring at the same bottleneck we started with. 🤨

On November 30, we’ll mark the third anniversary of that ChatGPT moment. Over these years, I’ve been obsessed with one question: how will AI and coding evolve into what Andrej Karpathy calls the Software 3.0 era? To find out, I spent the last year analyzing 130 people who founded or built 52 unicorns: different industries, different frameworks, different playbooks. And still, every conversation, every dataset, every insight circled back to the same uncomfortable truth.

It wasn’t AI. It wasn’t Agile or DevOps. It wasn’t capital. It was the 1% problem: the rare few capable of turning potential into performance. The ones every company desperately needs but almost no one knows how to build.

That’s where our story begins.