Plaid's Ex-CTO Says the Industry-Wide AI Copy Cycle Is Now 2–4 Weeks
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-09-14
JD Grèze, Town's CEO and former Plaid CTO, told Harry Stebbings that the interval between a working AI idea being found and someone else shipping it has collapsed from roughly a decade to 2–4 weeks industry-wide. The claim: speed itself is being structurally repriced, and the "first-mover with time to compound" moat no longer exists for under-resourced builders.
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