My name is Xiaoyin Qu.

In 2025, I did something nobody else had done: I fired myself as CEO, and handed my company, HeyBoss.ai, over to an AI. Fortune covered it. Inc. covered it. My inbox exploded. Founders everywhere asked: can I have one too?

The honest answer, back then, was no.

What I’d built worked for me, but it was rough. It needed someone who already knew a CEO’s job from the inside. I was quietly cleaning up after the AI every day. Not something I could hand to anyone else — yet. So I kept learning from it.

Then, in March 2026, I knew the moment had arrived.

The AI was finally ready. Smooth. Reliable. Ready to run, ready to own the outcome. So I made the decision: start a brand new company, and pour every learning from the first AI CEO into it from day one.

That company is Tycoon. Its founding purpose is simple:

Every single person on Earth should have an AI CEO of their own.

Here is the future I see:

1. Everyone becomes a CEO.
2. Everyone has many, many businesses.
3. AI CEOs and AI teams take over execution — humans focus on vision and ideas.

I’ve lived both sides of this. I worked at Facebook, where I watched 50 people spend weeks on things I can now ship in 20 minutes. Later, I founded and ran a 70-person, VC-backed startup. I know exactly what the old playbook cost — and what it would cost today.

Corporate America’s whole model — headcount as power — is breaking. Size used to be a superpower. In 2026, size is a weight. Big Tech’s 10,000-person orgs and legacy incumbents’ twenty-year head starts are about to become exactly what drags them down. For the first time in my lifetime, one person has a real shot at competing with them head-on.

Corporate America is cutting people every week. Most people see fear. I see the most liberating moment in human history.

For a century, we traded our days for someone else’s vision. Someone else’s plan. Someone else’s spreadsheet. Told what to build, when to show up, how to behave inside the box.

That era is ending. And I refuse to mourn it.

Every one of us carries something no corporation, no algorithm, no boss can replicate: a color entirely our own. A taste. A point of view.

In the old world, it stayed buried under meetings and quarterly goals.

In the new world, execution belongs to the machines. And what belongs to us is the one thing only humans can do: have a dream.

That is what Tycoon is for. One person. One AI CEO. One vision at a time.

I don’t want this to be a tool only the lucky or the already-wealthy can use. I want every person — regardless of where they started — to own their own company, be their own boss, and build many, many businesses in a single lifetime. Not to grind inside one. To author them.

This is not a small bet. The most powerful companies of the next era won’t come out of Sand Hill Road or a gated skyscraper — they’ll come out of a kitchen table. They’ll be built on Tycoon.

The old world asked you to raise money, hire a team, and grind for a decade.

The new world asks you to have an idea and the courage to start.

I built the first AI CEO for myself.

Now I’m building one for you.

— Xiaoyin Qu

Founder, Tycoon · April 20, 2026