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Christian Catalini · Mar 5, 2026

Weird Employees for $200 a Month

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Christian Catalini · Christian Catalini

You’ve just been told you have superpowers. You can hire weird employees for $200/month. What do you build?

I joined @eddylazzarin & @rhackett from @a16zcrypto to unpack my new AGI paper‚ and what it means for your career, company and the economy.

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The thesis? Automation costs are collapsing. Verification costs aren’t. The bottleneck is shifting from intelligence to human verification bandwidth. That gap is where the next generation of great companies will be built.

We cover: ➡️ why the one-person billion-dollar startup is moving from meme to reality ➡️ why experts rationally train their replacements ➡️ how to race towards an augmented economy rather than a Hollow one ➡️ why crypto becomes load-bearing infrastructure

➡️ what to do if you’re 22, 42 🌌, or already building “The apprenticeship is dead. The real work is beginning.”

If you’re trying to understand where leverage comes from next, listen. 🎙️ Podcast: open.spotify.com 📜 Paper: arxiv.org

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