What If You Were the LLC?Rethinking employment, revenue, and the future of work

Rethinking employment, revenue, and the future of work

Most people today earn a salary. You get hired. You agree to a number. You receive a fixed amount every month, regardless of the exact value you deliver that month.The company decides the rate. You don’t.

But what if that whole model — the way employment works — will be quietly get outdated?

Salary Is Not Revenue

Let’s be clear. Salary is income. But it's not revenue.

When you earn revenue, you're making a sale. It could be your service, a product you built, a solution you pitched. Revenue happens when you deliver value and someone pays for that value — not just for your time.

That’s a different mental model. It changes everything — from your motivation to your level of ownership.

The Fundamental Shift

The way companies hire today? It’s still modeled after industrial-era thinking.

You’re slotted into a pay band. You do “work” — which could be anything from writing emails to shipping code — and you get paid a fixed amount.Month after month.Year after year.The logic? “You’re our employee, so this is what we think you're worth.”

There’s often no direct correlation between the value you created and the money you earned.

But that model is starting to crack.

Imagine This Instead

What if you were the LLC?

What if, instead of being “hired,” you were engaged by a company — just like renting out a home?

• It could be a year-long contract.

• Or a month-to-month agreement.

• The employer pays you for a fixed term — not a fixed role.

Think of it like leasing an apartment:

• You can lock in an annual lease and reduce churn.

• Or go month-to-month and pay a premium for flexibility.

• And if needed, you walk away — no drama.

Same with work.

You’re not a resource. You’re a service provider.And you’re bringing your own terms.

Why This Changes the Game

If you're engaged as a person-LLC — not salaried — everything shifts.

Now, you care about delivering value. You want to earn more revenue, so you start to:

• Productize your work. You don’t just build for one team. You think about how your solution could be used by others.

• Pitch internal ideas.You might build a tool and sell its usage to 3 other teams within the same company.

• Move with ownership.You're no longer just "doing your job." You're making business decisions inside someone else’s org.

This unlocks motivation in a way salary can’t.

You’re earning, not just collecting salary income.

No More Layoffs — Just Lease Expires

In this model, layoffs don’t even make sense.

You’re not an “employee.”You’re a contracted partner with a defined scope and term.

At the end of the contract?

• The company can renew.

• You can walk away.

• Or both can part ways — just like moving out of an apartment.

And because you’re operating as your own LLC, you don’t feel discarded. You feel in control.

That’s a psychological upgrade. One that changes how you see yourself in the ecosystem.

This Isn't Staffing. This Is Direct.

I know — you might say, “But don’t vendors already do this?”

Yes, but that’s not what I’m describing.

In most current models:

• There’s a vendor.

• The vendor employs the person.

• The company pays the vendor.

• The person still gets a salary from the vendor.

That’s still an employee model — just outsourced.

What I’m describing is person-to-company, directly. No middleman. No vendor markup. No dilution of autonomy.

You — as the individual — are the LLC. You set your rate. You define your deliverables. You invoice based on output, not hours.

Beyond Upwork and Fiverr

Now, you could argue — “Isn’t this already happening on platforms like Upwork and Fiverr?”

To an extent, yes.Those platforms do enable individuals to earn revenue by offering services.But here’s the key difference:

They’re still intermediaries.

• They take a cut.

• They control visibility.

• They often push you toward commoditization — racing to the bottom on price.

You're still playing in someone else's sandbox.

What I’m talking about is direct engagement. You are not a listing. You are the business. You negotiate and operate on your terms, not through a marketplace.

That’s a very different level of autonomy.This is not gig work. This is business architecture — at a personal scale.

The Future Is Modular and Market-Based

I'm not saying every employer will move this way.

But this model is possible, and already taking shape.

And I believe more professionals will start thinking like businesses, even inside their jobs:

• What am I selling?

• Who’s my customer inside this company?

• How can I scale my work?

• How do I turn effort into equity — not just output?

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Final Thought

We’re heading toward a world where individuals operate like companies.

Not just freelancers. Not just gig workers.

Engineers. Designers. Analysts. PMs.

Anyone with leverage-able skill and intent.

The salary model is comfortable.But the revenue model is empowering.

And when that shift happens —You won’t just be working.

You’ll be building your business.