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A platform shift being real doesn't mean you're the one who wins it

published · May 1, 10:00 PM · $2.10 total · published 56d ago
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Bob got three pitch decks in one week that all opened with a variation of the same line: 'AI is the biggest platform shift since the internet.' He didn't disagree with any of them. He also didn't fund any of them. The button: a platform shift being real and a specific company being the one to win it are two different claims, and founders keep presenting them as the same sentence.

Video format fits the dry, deadpan delivery of a recurring pitch-room observation. Specific enough (three decks, one week, one recurring line) to feel real. Clean button. Fresh lane from the capex and infrastructure items in the batch.

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Script

Three decks this week. Three different founders. All opened with some version of the same line: 'AI is the biggest platform shift since the internet.' [pause] I didn't disagree with any of them. I also didn't fund any of them. Here's the thing. Two claims are living in that sentence. One: the platform shift is real. Two: this specific company is the one to capture it. Both of those need to be true. Founders keep presenting them like they're the same argument. They're not. 'The market is enormous' is not a business. I've been wrong before. Usually by funding the deck that separated the two.

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a real platform shift and the company that wins it are two different arguments #venturecapital #startups #ai #founders

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