While this may become possible, it will never be desirable or smart (outside of some far-off futuristic scenario involving AI and or robotics perhaps).
Humans must sleep; humans get sick; humans have families; humans need vacations; humans can only rationally work so many hours per day; humans have emergencies; etc. If you're running a billion dollar company, by yourself, you're doing something incredibly stupid.
Having 10 or 20 employees on a billion dollar startup? Maybe that will make sense, depending on the business in question (a photo start-up like Instagram is certainly an ideal candidate). The cost of having those employees is extraordinarily low in comparison to the value of the business, and the benefit they bring. It'd be the cost equivalent of forgoing storage backups on data worth $100 million, because the backups cost $100,000 per year.
Key functions outsorcing requires extremely smart, accurate and precise planning. One must be very talented and experienced in techincal requirements specifications composing and validating and analyzing feedback. Feedback not from clients but from outsorced staff.
Humans must sleep; humans get sick; humans have families; humans need vacations; humans can only rationally work so many hours per day; humans have emergencies; etc. If you're running a billion dollar company, by yourself, you're doing something incredibly stupid.
Having 10 or 20 employees on a billion dollar startup? Maybe that will make sense, depending on the business in question (a photo start-up like Instagram is certainly an ideal candidate). The cost of having those employees is extraordinarily low in comparison to the value of the business, and the benefit they bring. It'd be the cost equivalent of forgoing storage backups on data worth $100 million, because the backups cost $100,000 per year.