Two ways for an AI company to protect itself from competition: (a) depend not just on AI but also deep domain knowledge about a particular field, (b) have a very close relationship with the end users.
Two ways for an AI company to protect itself from competition: (a) depend not just on AI but also deep domain knowledge about a particular field, (b) have a very close relationship with the end users.
“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors — so rare that you can almost discount the possibility... Inexperienced founders usually give competitors more credit than they deserve. Whether you succeed depends far more
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AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't.
I would say having taste and leveraging AI is your ultimate defense against AI
There are very few moats in AI. But like with human relationships, you will stick with the systems that know you best
Memory and context have gravity. State is a moat.