Last week, I explored how the “AI-Native Paradox” is less about a specific industry and more about the phenomenon of AI enabling a surge of new players, each leveraging advanced tools to carve out novel niches and challenge incumbents. Nowhere is this more visible than in the Martech and AdTech ecosystems.

AI for VC & Founders: The playbook (dealbook?) has changed—and everyone is scrambling to keep up.

“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating
the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.” (Thomas Troward)

Truth is, most startups die.
— 9 out of 10 fail (according to Genome Project)
— 199 out of 200 (according to THNK & Deloitte Fast Ventures)
It’s the elephant in the room.