#2 resonates. But not only leaders in the space you're building. Talk to leaders who have built one person companies. It's a unique skillset.

People = meetings, disagreements, politics, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance reviewing = less time focusing on what actually matters i.e. building and selling = loosing to the competition.

IMO people need to start investing less in building out a team and more in automation. The best solo-founders are going to be those that can effectively product manage AI tools.