JA WestenbergMar 6

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

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@Daojoan “Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.” - that’s excellent business advice for any smaller company with a specific talent competing against bigger players.
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@SturmUndDranger @Daojoan

Yup. The hardest thing to do as a young entrepreneur is to identify a very narrow niche opportunity that has a sufficient market size to support your company, but is not too big to attract the interest of the big players. Then go and build it while all of your friends are prostrating themselves before the gods of venture capital pitching the same world shaking chat box or whatever is the it thing of the day.