i may be using my startup's AI to play matchmaker at a party on april 2nd
yes it's for singles. no it's not a dating event. (it's a dating event)
not everyone gets in 👉 https://t.co/QeOlVogzT8
I spent a decade building AI.
Every opportunity that mattered came the same way.
One person. One call. One sentence:
"You should meet this person."
Never from LinkedIn.
Never from cold email.
Always trust, transferred person to person.
So I built the matchmaker.
This is NEXA 🧵
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My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers.
App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to apply the analogy of "fast startup, slow incumbent" here), they are just big. Far more so than with any other prior new technology, there is a massive and fast-moving wave that obsoletes every new app almost as fast as it can be invented. There is almost no time to build a company and scale it.
There are two ways AI application startup founders can make money:
- Make a flash-in-the-pan app that generates a ton of cash and bank the cash (my estimate is that you have about 12-18 months cashflow generation)
- Make a good enough app that you get acquired by one of the big players for sufficient equity
The situation is highly unstable - we don't know if it's going to crash or go to the moon but both scenarios make it very unlikely that any AI application startup will independently become a generational supercompany (baseline odds are low to begin with).
The best odds are finding an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers, ideally ones relating to real atoms (hardware or world-related) data and not software/finance.
@Loving_shomu@CyberCellLko@cyberbangalor@HMOIndia Cybercrime can happen from anywhere. Deeply disappointed by the response from a national helpline. In a time-sensitive case like this, we expected swift action — not a game of “not my state, not my problem.” This red tape costs victims dearly.
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