Winning AI App Companies Win Through Capital and Talent, Not Defensibility Theories
zebird0 · x · 2026-08-10
VCs tend to overthink theories of defensibility for AI application companies. However, the winners from the last cycle succeeded by rapidly aggregating capital and talent, using these resources to make smart bets in an evolving model landscape.
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