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Distribution Is the Moat
When AI collapses product timelines, your expertise and distribution become the real intellectual property.
How it works
- 1The PMF era taught founders to obsess over product. AI collapsed product timelines to near zero.
- 2When anyone can build the product in months, the product stops being defensible.
- 3Your expertise and your distribution become the real intellectual property.
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