Solo Entrepreneurs in 2026: The Future China Saw and the West Ignored

Solo Entrepreneurs in 2026: The Future China Saw and the West Ignored Ma Ruipeng is 41 years old. He spent the last 20 years working as a programmer at a Chinese company. Three months ago, something changed. He quit. Today, from his apartment in Beijing - with three computers, Claude Code, Figma, and his own OpenClaw installation (which he calls "Big House") - Ma runs his own company. One person. No employees. No co-founders. It's not the exception. It's the rule being born. Meanwhile in the West, 85M jobs will be displaced by AI in 2026 alone.