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September 22, 2026

N8n boss: ‘Our goal is to get to 1bn users with fewer than 1,000 employees'

Jan Oberhauser on the surge in demand for AI agents and how companies can now do more with a much lower headcount

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

Jan Oberhauser wants to build a company that serves more than 10% of the world’s population with fewer employees than a mid-size accounting firm.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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