When your startup can be livestreamed in 3 days, starting is the commodity
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-13
In What's Hot in AI/Infra/VC #515, Ed Sim cites HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto: when your startup can be livestreamed and rebuilt in 3 days, starting is the commodity — enduring is not. Great founders have agency, seeing the world as mutable.
Key points:
- As AI democratizes intelligence, founders without robotics, chips, or nuclear experience will start building the hard things — an explosion of hard-tech founders is coming.
- When founders run out of energy, you end up acquired by the likes of Bending Spoons.
- Sim's pitch mantra: less logical, more crazy — show the future, not the next two quarters.
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