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I suspect this is the future of most businesses. Even today, one person can effectively replicate Microsoft from the early 2000s.

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One person can build a $22 billion company (in year 2000 dollars) that sells an operating system used by 97% of personal computers, the world’s most popular office suite, along with a bunch of other software used by virtually every company in the world, and is on the verge of releasing a wildly popular gaming console system?

Do you have any examples of this?

I think you miss the most important bits:

- backdoor deals to discourage alternatives, such as moving headquarters to convince people not to use alternatives,

- monopoly abuse,

- active sabotage of alternative software by intentionally triggering false errors if used with competitors' software (DR DOS),

- unleashing Internet Explorer on humanity (which proves that AI can't be that bad if humanity survived that)

You know, the stuff that every philantrope like Gates does all the time.

Don’t worry, just give them a year and infinite tokens and they can make windows me.

Just have to view their “trust me bro” rating.

You say that, yet who has?

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