WordPress Is Eating Itself Alive

WordPress powers about 41% of the internet. It took Matt Mullenweg twenty years to build that. It took him about ninety days in 2024 to lose the trust of the community he built it with — the agencies, plugin developers, hosts, and translators who bet their businesses on the update button still working next Friday. This is the full timeline: how a blog fork in 2003 became a movement, how Automattic became a company, how WP Engine became the target, and how one keynote at WordCamp US turned into cease and desists, lawsuits, forked plugins, mass resignations, and a preliminary injunction. And it’s the story of a pattern that keeps repeating in open source — from Redis to Terraform to Elasticsearch — where the same loop plays out with a different logo every time.

The One-Person Company Just Became Real

In 2025, Wix paid 80 million dollars for a company that was six months old. It was built almost entirely by one man and his AI. He launched it alone. AI wrote ninety percent of his product, tested his code, and answered his users while he slept. Starting a company no longer requires a team or money. It requires one person, a laptop, and AI.
Every claim in this video comes from published reporting and public data: TechCrunch, Fortune, Carta’s Solo Founders Report, the US Census Bureau, and the founders’ own published numbers. This shift is not a forecast. More than one in three new startups today is founded by a single person, and the tools behind it are available to anyone right now.

In this video, we cover:

  • The 80-million-dollar company that was mostly built by AI
  • Why the century-old formula “more people = more money” just collapsed.
  • The exact AI team one person can run today: strategist, builder, designer, support
  • How ordinary people with no technical skills are replacing their salaries
  • The one skill that separates the people who win from the people who give up
  • Why the biggest barrier left isn’t technology… it’s you

AI Will Replace Your Job—Here’s What to Learn Instead

AI is going to replace jobs as we know them. The question isn’t whether you can preserve the old world—it’s whether you can adapt fast enough for the new one.

In this video, I answer three hard questions: which skills AI will make obsolete, whether regulation can meaningfully slow superintelligence, and whether an IT diploma is still worth the time and money. I also explain the skill I believe matters most over the next three to five years: directing and orchestrating AI.

The EASIEST Way To Make Money With AI (From Scratch)

Business strategist Daniel Priestley explains why AI has created one of the biggest opportunities in a generation for ordinary people to build a profitable business, and why the winners will be the ones who lean into what makes them irreplaceably human.

Priestley’s core argument is that AI has collapsed the cost of building a software company. What used to require 20 or 30 developers, millions in funding, and 10,000 customers can now be done by a tiny team for almost nothing. He points to Steven’s own company rebuilding its entire applicant tracking system in a single week, something that would have cost 500,000 dollars and taken 18 months not long ago. Wildly profitable software companies now exist serving niches of just 500 or 1,000 customers.

But he’s honest about the catch. As these things become easy and free, they also lose value. If everyone can build software or make content, the market value of doing so drops at the same rate it becomes easy. So Priestley keeps returning to a first-principles question: what can I do that is irreplaceably human, that a kid in Mumbai or an AI agent cannot replicate?