By Evan Ratliff
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 11:00:00
Hearing all this, I began to wonder: Was the age of the AI workforce just around the corner? And even, could I be the owner of Altman’s one-man unicorn? Coincidentally, I had some experience with agents, having created a series of AI agent voice clones of myself for the first season of my podcast. Shell game.
I also have an entrepreneurial background, having once been co-founder and CEO of media and technology startup Atavist, which was backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. The magazine of the same name that we created is still successful today. However, I wasn’t born a startup manager and the technical side kind of fizzled out. But I was told that failure is the best teacher. So I thought, why not try it again? But this time I would take the AI promoters at their word, forego the annoying hiring and instead look forward to a purely AI employee future.
First step: create my co-founders and employees. There were many platforms to choose from, such as…