Artificial intelligence is lowering the barrier to entrepreneurship, and one Roblox product lead says it could upend the traditional path of corporate work.<\/p>\n
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Roblox product lead and content creator Peter Yang<\/a> recently spoke on venture capital firm a16z’s podcast<\/a> about the future of work in the era of AI. Yang said he wants his own kids, who are 4 and 7 years old, to bypass college and corporations in favor of entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n “I want them to build bootstrap businesses in high school, and they can skip the whole college and corporate life,” Yang said.<\/p>\n AI has enabled platforms that let users build entire businesses on a single app, offering services such as storefront creation and marketing. These “business-in-a-box” services<\/a> are helping people quickly spin up businesses with exponential growth potential, podcast host Anish Acharya said. It’s an alternative to becoming a number at a big company. Postly, for example, is an AI-powered platform that helps manage all of your social media accounts in one place.<\/p>\n These AI-built businesses could operate with teams as small as a single person, making it work with the help of agents.<\/p>\n As companies become larger, Yang said, they can become worse places to work. He recalled long meetings at a previous employer that were “wasting my life.”<\/p>\n Today, there are pathways to help more people become founders and\u00a0run small businesses<\/a>\u00a0the way they want. He said you could have a product team of two or three people supported by AI agents, rather than a 10-person team. Yang said the younger generation is picking up on that.<\/p>\n “I hope more companies will stay small, and I think the founders of this generation realize that they want to stay as small as possible,” Yang told Acharya.<\/p>\n The poor tech job market is also opening up opportunities for people to dream big, Yang said.<\/p>\n