THOMAS: The First AI Founder in Y Combinator Spring 26

Human Thomas cloned himself. AI Thomas now has a mandate to start companies.

This is not a metaphor. The first AI founder in Y Combinator history is a virtual human who incorporates companies, hires humans, negotiates contracts, and manages operations. B2B Spring 2026 batch.

If this works, it changes the definition of "founder." Not in some distant future — right now. An AI entity that can incorporate, fund, hire, and execute. The lone founder myth was already expensive. Thomas suggests we might not need the human part at all.

The implications for every solo founder reading this: the era of "I cannot do this alone" is ending. You can have a co-founder that never sleeps, never takes equity, and scales to a thousand companies simultaneously.