Before we start — Nigeria · 2026 · Day 1

ACE AI
Startup Bootcamp.

AI-Era One-Person Startup — Empirical Case Study
A 30-minute look at the world you’re about to enter — then the real class begins.
InstructorHoJoon Lee — CTO, Eduniety Lab
InstructorKyungBae Park (Ph.D.) — CEO, Anvyl Labs
LocationNigeria · 2026
SessionDay 1 · Boom-up Intro
Watch first
02 / 15
5-minute clip

First, watch this.

Sam Altman on GPT-5 and the 1-person company

youtube.com/watch?v=hmtuvNfytjM&t=1280s
Starts at 21:20 — “It’s 2035. What new jobs exist?” · play ≈ 5 min (to ≈ 26:00)
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What you just saw
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“There will soon be a
one-person, billion-dollar
company.”
— Sam Altman, OpenAI
For the first time in history, this is not a joke.
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Why you
04 / 15

You are the luckiest generation to build a company.

The tools that once needed 100 people now fit in your laptop.

Let’s meet the people already doing it. →
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Cold Open
05 / 15
Live · Right now

leanaileaderboard.com

OFFICIAL LEAN AI NATIVE COMPANIES
01Medvi   GLP-1 telehealth$401M ARR
02Pieter Levels   multi-product$3M+ ARR
03Higgsfield   AI video$300M ARR
04… 47 more companies
Run by
Henry Shi
Super.com founder · $150M+ exit
Inclusion criteria
  • $5M+ ARR
  • Under 50 employees
  • Under 5 years old
Source
leanaileaderboard.com — as of 2026.04
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Hero Case · 01
06 / 15
1 MEDVI

$20K became $1.8B
in two years.

Founder
Matthew Gallagher
Age 41
Employees
1 / 2
⚠ sources conflict
Initial Capital
$20,000
bootstrapped · no VC
2025 Revenue
$401M
20,000× the initial capital
2026 Run-Rate Target
$1.8B
daily $3M+ · 16.2% net margin
What it is
GLP-1 weight-loss
telehealth.
How
12+ AI tools
Built in 2 years.
Net Income
~$65M / year
Sources: leanaileaderboard.com · NYT 2026.04.02 · PYMNTS 2026
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Hero Case · 02
07 / 15
2 PIETER LEVELS

0 employees. 0 funding.
Multi-product. $3M+ ARR.

Profile
Dutch · self-taught dev
Briefly hired one AI dev for Photo AI.
Funding
$0
100% bootstrapped
Photo AI marketing spend
$0
Portfolio
Nomad List community $700K ARR
Remote OK job board $2M+ ARR
Photo AI $132K MRR $1.58M ARR
Interior AI $40K MRR $480K ARR
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Pieter · multi-product compounding
08 / 15

70 failures.
1 Photo AI hit.

65 misses
5 hits at $100K+ ARR
He publicly tracks his failures.
Of 70+ projects, only 4–5 reached $100K+ ARR.
"Solo maker rule = coding skill ≠
try rate × distribution."
Try rate is the lever. Multi-product creates compounding.
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Hero Case · 03
09 / 15
3 HIGGSFIELD

232 employees. $300M ARR.
A different definition of lean.

Founder
Alex Mashrabov
ex-Snap · Generative AI Director
Founded
2023
Yerzat Dulat · Mahi de Silva
Employees
232 ⚠
Does NOT meet leanaileaderboard ≤50
Funding · Valuation
$138M · $1.3B
2026.01
Revenue per employee
$1.29M
Traditional SaaS average: ~$200K
2026 EOY ARR target
$1B
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Why now
10 / 15

2015 → 2026. What changed?

COST $70K+ $0 2015 2020 2022 2024 2026 CHATGPT LAUNCH flat · pre-AI 99% ↓
One-person startup initial cost · 2015 → 2026
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3-month cumulative cost
11 / 15

$70,000   →   $700

3-month cumulative · same scope

Area 2015 2026
UI / UX design$400 – $15KFree – $30/mo
Full-stack dev$20K+ outsourced$40 – $200/mo
Server / infra$400 – $1.5K/moFree – $20/mo
Video / landing$3.5K – $7K$30 – $200/mo
Customer support$1.8K – $2.5K/mo$7 – $70/mo
Legal drafts$400 – $1.5K/case$0 – $200/mo
3-month total$70K – $220K$200 – $1K
≈ 99% reduction.   A full-stack company for 3 months on the price of a single laptop.
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The honesty slide
12 / 15

Then why isn't everyone doing it?

Item 2015 2026 Change
Learning curve1+ year1 – 3 months↓ decreased
Cost of failure$70K lost$700 lost↓ decreased
CAC
customer acquisition		similarhigher↑ increased
Differentiation"existence = differentiation""buried in noise"↑ increased
Build cost converges to zero. Sell cost stays. Differentiation cost increased.
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Our toolbox
13 / 15

Many great AI tools exist.
We use two.

This bootcamp
AI CODING AGENT
Codex
Desktop app — plain English, no commands
AGENTIC IDE
Antigravity
Full-stack workspace · build in the editor
You won’t type commands.
You will still read code.
Other great options
ToolSweet spot
Codex  OpenAIDesktop coding agent — our pick
Antigravity  GoogleAgentic full-stack IDE — our pick
Claude  CodePlanning · logic · docs
CursorVS Code + AI
v0  VercelUI prototyping
Bolt.newFull-stack in 1 minute
ReplitInstant deploy
Tools change. Methodology persists. Today we go deep on two.
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Handoff · Session 01
14 / 15
Boom-up done

Now, let’s build.

Step 1 — Install Codex & Antigravity

DAY 1 · SESSION 01
Codex Client & Workspace
Lecture site
odatot.github.io/nigeria/NA/LECTURE_ENG/docs
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The whole map
15 / 15

10 days. One shipped product.

talk → spec → structure → screen → feature → user → money → market
Every single day 1 Learn · 2h→ 2 Task 01–03 with Codex · 3h→ 3 Mission 01–02 solo · 1h   the same 3 beats: diagnose → fix with AI → verify
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