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At this moment in time, there is a gap in the technology ecosystem. With access to large-scale general AI models, you can be up and running with something that users want - that changes people's daily lives - in weeks. These models are only getting cheaper and more powerful. The right comparison in terms of opportunity size isn't "existing software markets," it's the human work being done. Founders should be ambitious to change entire industries and invent new experiences. The capabilities are there. This is not a comfortable environment for big companies. The pace of change in AI will blow your hair back. You can't read the research papers quickly enough. Big companies are slow to make bets. They need to worry about the financial quarter and do "change management." They struggle to reason about non-determinism. They have too few hackers and too many bureaucrats. Those with strong leadership are in the biggest race of their economic lives to adapt to AI. The cosmic scale has suddenly t

Conviction WHY EMBED? Apply here. At this moment in time, there is a gap in the technology ecosystem. With access to large-scale general AI models, you can be up and running with something that users want - that changes people's daily lives - in weeks. These models are only getting cheaper and more powerful. The right comparison in terms of opportunity size isn't "existing software markets," it's the human work being done. Founders should be ambitious to change entire industries and invent new experiences. The capabilities are there. This is not a comfortable environment for big companies. The

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