If you're starting from nothing, you may not have the budget to outsource everything...or even anything. Admittedly, with services like Fiverr, Mechanical Turk, various code outsourcing sites, and whatever else, the price of outsourcing is pretty low. But, I've found the odds of getting good work are pretty low. I wouldn't want to have to rely on it. And, costs skyrocket on development when you have to have it done more than once by shitty developers (there are great developers on all of those sites...but, being able to assess them is not a skill that is in most non-developers tool chest).

But, I think that's kind of semantics. Is a "one-person company" not a one-person company anymore if they hire an accountant to do their taxes? I doubt anyone would argue it's now a two-person company. Likewise, if you get a lawyer to help with a contract or something, it's still a one-person shop by most people's measure.

I suspect OP just wanted to rule out folks who were coming into it already wielding significant capital. That's a major limiting factor for a lot of people who might want to build an outsourced company.

I get the feeling OP wants to have some inspiration that doesn't require a team and doesn't require significant capital; probably because OP doesn't have access to either. There are lots of places in the world where that would be true even for someone with talent and ambition.