Building for the future
if you are a young entrepreneur or a startup founder you have probably noticed that AI technology has allowed for a lot of brand new opportunities; Specifically building domain-specific wrappers/harnesses around frontier models.
But many of these such opportunities have a short window. Meaning that they can mostly be capitalized in the short term before they become built-in features.
If your goal is to move quickly and potentially make lotta quick bucks in short term, surely go ahead pursue them.
But if you want to win big, you should be playing the long game and build at the edge.
That entails betting on capabilities that are not obvious yet, developing deep domain-specific expertise, building regulatory moats, accumulating proprietary data, establishing strong distribution networks, earning customer trust; Generally building foundations that intelligence alone cannot solve.
Your business should become more valuable as AI improves and not obsoleted as…