We Must Create

The job you were promised is disappearing.

Students are graduating, trained for jobs that no longer exist.

We have two options:
- Wait for a position that may never come.
- Or build one for ourselves.

This might be the most important economic shift of our lifetime.

We are entering an era of mass entrepreneurship. Not by choice for everyone, but by necessity for many. There will be millions of one-person businesses, two-person teams, small companies built around one good idea.

There are 29.8 million solopreneurs in the United States alone, contributing $1.7 trillion to the economy. Over 440,000 new business applications are filed every month, more than 90% above pre-pandemic levels. LinkedIn reports a 69% jump in people adding "founder" to their profiles, and 47% of those surveyed said AI made them more likely to start a business. This is not limited to the hyper-aware in Silicon Valley, it is everywhere.

AI has broken the old economics of building a business.

A single founder can now do the work that used to require a team. What cost $150,000 a month to run online in 2000 costs $1,500 today. What required five employees in 2020 requires one person and a laptop in 2026.

It has never been this accessible to create something from nothing. You do not need a degree, capital, or a business plan. You need a problem worth solving and the willingness to start before you feel ready.

A wave of global micro-entrepreneurship is here.

Entrepreneurship is not for the privileged few with capital and connections. A 16-year-old with a phone has more capability than a venture-backed startup had ten years ago.

Entrepreneurship is for the everyman. It must be.

Because the alternative is waiting. Waiting for governments to legislate on UBI. Waiting for corporations to retrain a workforce they could otherwise let go. Waiting for someone else to solve it.
The people who thrive will be the ones who start.

Yesterday we soft announced Dream Inc.

And yes, we do actually own the word Dream.

We create and support businesses that help people achieve their dreams.

Millions of people are going to need help building something of their own. Inspiration, education, community and maybe even sometimes capital.

Most of all support, the kind of support that believes in you before you believe in yourself.

Our mission is to help 10 million people start businesses for free. Free, because the biggest barrier to entrepreneurship was never money. It was belief.

Software ate the world.

AI is reshaping it.

We must create.


Jonny Davies
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Dream Inc.