AI Agents Are Running Businesses Now, The A2A Future of B2B, The One-Person Billion Dollar Company

Today we’re going deep on what it actually looks like to run a business with AI agents doing the work. Alibaba.com President Kuo Zhang breaks down how companies need to shift from thinking of AI as a helper to treating it as a full operator — with checkpoints, guardrails, and humans stepping in only for the decisions that matter most. He walks through a real workflow where an agent team can launch an entire e-commerce business, handle supplier negotiations, manage logistics, and prep tax filings without a single human touching the process until final approval. He also makes a bold prediction — that the first one-person billion-dollar company is just months away — and argues that the most valuable skill in the agent era isn’t coding or prompting, it’s knowing what good looks like well enough to catch when AI gets it wrong.