Business | The rise of the “solopreneur”

The technology is allowing entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses on their own

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Illustration: Erik Carter

|LOS ANGELES |6 min read

Sarah Gwilliam is neither a software engineer nor—by her own admission—someone who “speaks AI”. But after her father died recently she got the spark of an idea for creating a generative artificial-intelligence startup that would help others like her handle their grief and sort out their late loved ones’ affairs. Call it wedding planning for funerals.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The rise of the “solopreneur””

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