Tag: startups

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• Nothing Grows Under the Big Tree: The Curse of Going First in AI

  31 May, 2026

  Founders are taught that going first is rewarded. In the AI era, the opposite is becoming true: early innovators do the market validation that platforms then absorb, often for free. By the time a big platform announces a feature, the pioneers who proved it works are already obsolete.