What Comes After Selling Work? New Essay Explores Free-Service, Monetize-the-Network Models for AI-Native Services
dragon_khoi · x · 2026-10-28
Rex Woodbury publishes a long-form essay, What Comes After Selling Work?, on the state of AI-native services (AINS) startups and what business models come next. His core question: what happens if you give the service away for free and monetize the network instead? The piece maps the new kinds of services firms already emerging in early-stage AI and argues that monetizing the network around the service may replace selling work itself.