From 110-person company to a one-person AI-powered startup growing 4x/month
Ryan Carson brings 25 years of founder and CEO experience to this conversation. His previous company, Treehouse, grew to 110 full-time employees and taught over a million people to code before being acquired. Now he's running his fourth company entirely alone after raising a seed round — no employees yet, with revenue projected to 4x in a single month. The company is an AI divorce agent for family law firms, a space most people avoid. His experience building and managing large organizations gave him a deep foundation for understanding how to manage agents the same way you'd manage people — and he's applying every lesson from that to scaling himself as a solo operator.
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