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Jul 2024
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How AI is opening up new markets and imp...

Conviction
About this episode

This week on No Priors, we have a host-only episode. Sarah and Elad catch up to discuss how tech history may be repeating itself. Much like in the early days of the internet, every company is clamoring to incorporate AI into their products or operations while some legacy players are skeptical that investment in AI will pay off. They also get into new opportunities and capabilities that AI is opening up, whether or not incubators are actually effective, and what companies are poised to stand the test of time in the changing tech landscape.


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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Introduction

(0:16) Old school operators AI misunderstandings

(5:10) Tech history is repeating itself with slow AI adoption

(6:09) New AI Markets

(8:48) AI-backed buyouts

(13:03) AI incubation

(17:18) Exciting incubating applications

(18:26) AI and the public markets

(22:20) Staffing AI companies 

(25:14) Competition and shrinking head count

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