@Codie_Sanchez: Nobody wants to hear this, but distribution is the new moat. Almost every founder pitching me their new AI startup has …
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Codie_Sanchez argues that distribution is the new competitive moat for AI startups, highlighting that many founders lack an audience to sell their products to.
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Nobody wants to hear this, but distribution is the new moat.
Almost every founder pitching me their new AI startup has no audience to sell it to.
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