Startup Scaled to 2 People: AI Excels at Imitating Value, Not Creating It
Alec_Coughlin · x · 2026-08-07
David Shaner scaled a startup down from 34 people to just 2. The team left, but the scaffolding remained, keeping every value-creating process mapped. The author concludes that AI is great at imitating existing value-creation processes figured out by humans, but struggles to discover them from scratch.
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