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Marc Simoncini locked himself up for eight days with YouTuber Aywen to build an AI-native company. The experiment has only just started - and it already says something exciting about the new rules of entrepreneurship.
Jefferies named the thesis and the market traded it. Six months later the bet is unwinding, and the error is the one made rebuilding a CRM on a Saturday morning.
OpenAI's product managers code, Deutsche Bahn has 4,000 employees running 500 apps in production. What decides the outcome isn't the tool — it's three answers.
Agents are taking the bottom two rungs of the ladder: writing the code and reviewing it. The job that's left has no training pipeline.
Nine executives in ten see no effect of AI on their productivity. The Solow paradox is back, and the way it ended says where the gains will show up.
Gartner: top performers see positive returns on 81% of their AI projects. The number is accurate, but it partly measures how that group was defined.
77% of tech companies use generative AI, and their leaders rank it the 12th risk out of 14. That is not blindness: it is a register with no line for a vector.
32% of respondents to McKinsey's annual AI survey walked away from at least one software purchase because coding agents could build it. Buying was signing a contract; building means inheriting a lifecycle.
€5 per user per month instead of €29, a direct line to the founder and a say in the roadmap. Ten seats in this first wave — and three limits worth knowing before you apply rather than after.
In one year, the share of companies abandoning the majority of their AI initiatives went from 17% to 42%. Three cases told from the inside: the problem is not stopping, it is stopping without knowing what you are stopping.
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