I have been quietly building a set of ideas, books, and institutions around a single conviction: in the age of AI, the ordinary, hard-working individual should no longer be excluded from building meaningful things simply because survival consumes all their energy. This journey began with the One-Person Founder initiative, which argues that modern tools—especially AI—have collapsed the cost of creation. What once required teams, offices, and venture backing can now be done by a single focused individual. I documented this philosophy in my book One-Person Foundation and continue to develop it through One-Person Founder Initiative, where the idea is framed not as hustle culture, but as dignity restored to independent builders.

From there, the next logical step became unavoidable: if solo founders can now do the work, why does funding still assume they must starve first? This question led me to build a new kind of venture model—one that compensates founders by salary, not by false hope of a distant exit. Under https://6×6.vc/survey, I am designing a VC fund that pays AI-powered sole founders a stable income so they can focus on execution rather than pitch decks. This flips the traditional venture logic on its head. Instead of rewarding those who sell the best story, it supports those who are willing to show up every day and build, quietly and relentlessly.

These efforts converge into a broader thesis I call E2F — Employee to Founder. The future of work will not be defined by job titles, departments, or corporate ladders. As AI absorbs routine labor, employment will increasingly be replaced by individuals operating as micro-founders: creating tools, services, content, and infrastructure for real communities. The distinction between “having a job” and “building a startup” will blur, and eventually disappear. E2F is not about glorifying entrepreneurship—it is about acknowledging a structural shift where founding becomes the default mode of participation in the economy.

At the center of all of this is EFF — Every Founder Fundable, the most radical and necessary idea of the group. EFF challenges the current capital system, where money endlessly circulates among a small group of visible, well-connected, and seemingly brilliant founders, while millions of capable builders are locked out entirely. EFF proposes that capital should be dispersed broadly, much like an enhanced form of Universal Basic Income—but directed specifically at creation. Instead of paying people to wait, we fund them to build. This is not charity; it is economic efficiency. When talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, the waste is not just moral—it is systemic.

EFF also rejects the herd behavior that has come to dominate venture capital: the obsession with signaling, exits, and winner-take-all outcomes. AI has already leveled the tools of production; now we must level access to capital. The highest returns of the next decade will not come from betting everything on a few loud stars, but from empowering thousands of quiet, competent founders who would otherwise never get the chance to begin. This belief extends beyond venture capital into everyday life, which is why I am also building alternative implementations such as https://monly.org—a grassroots model where friends and relatives support one another through small, recurring contributions, creating a human-scale version of UBI rooted in trust rather than bureaucracy.