AI is not your moat. Everyone can call the same model. Jason Cohen (WP Engine, Smart Bear): customers never wanted AI, they wanted what was impossible before it. AI for beginners stalls near 80%. The moat is execution on a narrow customer. #startups #founders
"Everybody's bolting AI onto their product and calling it a moat. It's not. You can call the model. So can the founder building the same exact thing across town. A model anyone can rent is a feature. It's not a moat. Jason Cohen, who bootstrapped WP Engine and SmartBear, said it plain this week. Customers never wanted AI. They wanted the thing that was impossible before it. His warning on AI built for beginners. It gets you about 80% there. Then it stalls. The last stretch still needs someone who knows the craft and a little better moves. Nobody 30% faster gets ignored. The bar now is 10 times. So here's the split. The model everyone has, how you build it, price it, and support it. That part is yours alone. Cohen didn't win hosting by inventing hosting. He won a commodity market on service and pricing. Boring. And it worked. The moat was never the tech. It was the execution. Pick one narrow customer and out execute everyone chasing them. That's the moat. Nobody can rent. Like and subscribe for more. And if you're building something real, read Founders Who Finish, available at DaveSanders.net."
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AI is not your moat. Everyone can call the same model. Jason Cohen (WP Engine, Smart Bear): customers never wanted AI, they wanted what was impossible before it. AI for beginners stalls near 80%. The moat is execution on a narrow customer. #startups #founders