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When AI Favors the Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. But generative ML differs because incumbents are pushing the envelope. In addition to these the advantages, these incumbents have another edge : their distribution.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So if you are then I have to ask myself, “What are the incumbents going to do when you grow?”

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

TechCrunch

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. Also slotting somewhere in the product category is Gamma , a presentation designer platform built around a card-like interface. In addition to hosting templates for companies to build branded presentations, Prezent.ai

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The Economic Case for Generative AI (presentation)

Andreessen Horowitz

In this keynote presentation from AI Revolution, a16z general partner Martin Casado explains why with generative AI, that’s changing. [0:00] By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them?

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 that Will Upend Web2 Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

Today, it’s 12, driven by several factors but regulatory costs present the principal one. Where nascent rules are present, the regulation isn’t yet a warren of legalese- yet. Twenty years ago, startups IPOed after 4 years. Within this freedom to maneuver, Defi protocols invent new financial instruments.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Revolution is essentially Steve Case’s original money from AOL.

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