Employee vs Freelancer vs Solo AI Founder: Three Very Different Income Curves
saibharadwaj · x · 2026-09-09
A viral comparison chart: employees stay flat at 3k/month; freelancers climb unevenly from 1k to 10k; solo AI founders sit at zero for a long stretch, then jump to 1k, 10k, 50k, 100k — poking fun at the classic long-zero-then-explosive trajectory of building AI products alone.
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