2020 Startup Themes

1. The Law of Advertiser Atrophy

TikTok has already been banned by the US Military. Will it be in the US App Store by years end?

Autonomy, 5G and other factors have created a relaxed regulatory environment for rada. Software-defined radio has become recently cheap enough for anyone to experiment.

What was previously oral knowledge will be automatically documented by machines.

6. UAI (Useful AI)

Remote is in vogue and founders are rushing to build all parts of the distributed startup supply chain: Terminal helps generate remote teams, Tandem and There attempt to create a remote “office”, and Loom helps teams share their work over video.

3. The New Meme: Enterprise Search

Using GCP or AWS’s console like trying to sprint through molasses. AI is eating the software that ate the world, and specialized ML tools are growing with it.

5. The Privacy Headfake