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What are AI-first startups?

I believe AI-first startups will be as different from regular tech companies as tech companies are different from their pre-internet predecessors.

Here is a selection of essays that give a taste of my thinking on the topic.

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What is an AI-first startup?
(This is Part 1. Here is Part 2…
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4 months ago · 7 likes · Evgeny Shadchnev
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What Smart People Don't Get About AI
I spend a lot of time talking to smart people about how AI is affecting their businesses and how I can help them build an AI-first business. There’s one thing that puzzled me: despite all of them being smart and successful, some of them clearly get what’s AI transformation means and others clearly don’t. But why…
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3 months ago · 18 likes · 7 comments · Evgeny Shadchnev
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The New Startup Formula: AI-First, Agency-Driven, Donkeycorn-Minded
This is the talk I gave this week at an AI conference organised by Foundrs. Many people told me they found it useful, so I’m sharing it here…
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a month ago · 9 likes · Evgeny Shadchnev
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