The next billion dollar startups may not start with venture capital. They may start with one founder, AI, and relentless execution.

A few years ago, building a software company required a bigger team, more capital, and far more technical overhead.

Today, with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, AI agents, and modern no code infrastructure, the barrier to launching real products has collapsed.

That changes everything.

Instead of spreading capital across dozens of startups as an angel investor, I’m putting more of my energy into building and incubating my own companies.

And honestly, for me, this shift makes a lot of sense.

I’m a 3x founder with multiple exits.

I’ve spent years helping startups raise money, refine products, and scale growth.

But one thing I continue to see over and over again is this:

Many startups are built around ideas. Not businesses.

No real GTM strategy. No clear distribution. No clear buyer. No clear understanding of who would actually acquire the company someday.

Just excitement around the concept itself.

I’ve always approached company building differently.

I start with the end in mind.

Before I build anything, I ask myself:

“Who will buy this company?”

That question changes everything.

It forces clarity around the market, the customer, the positioning, the moat, and the actual business model.

And now, with AI dramatically compressing the cost and speed of execution, I can move from idea to MVP faster than ever before.

I can validate products myself. Build traction myself. Assemble audiences myself. Generate revenue myself.

Then once momentum exists, I can bring in operators or CEOs to help scale the companies while still retaining meaningful ownership and strategic control.

That model is incredibly attractive to me right now.

Not because I think angel investing is dead.

But because the leverage has shifted dramatically toward builders.

We are entering an era where one founder with AI tooling can accomplish what entire early stage teams used to do.

And honestly, I think most people still underestimate how big this shift is going to be.

Right now, I’m actively building 5 separate platforms.

Some will fail. Some will pivot. One might become a very large company.

But I’m betting on myself more than ever before.

Over the next several months, I’ll be sharing the entire journey publicly.

The wins. The mistakes. The product decisions. The launches. The failures. The traction. The lessons learned in real time.

If you want to follow the journey as these products either become real companies or completely fail, subscribe to my Halo Substack.

I’m going to document everything as transparently as possible.

This next chapter feels different.

And I'm only at the beginning.