🎙️ Podcast Notes: The AI Gold Rush

Host: Zoe

Core Theme: Why most AI startups will crash and burn—and what the survivors do differently to build lasting businesses.

📉 Why Most AI Startups Fail

• The Wrapper Trap: Building a thin UI on top of external models (GPT, Claude). When model providers add your feature natively, your business evaporates overnight.
• Solutions Looking for Problems: Starting with "I have AI, what can I break?" instead of targeting an urgent, painful problem people already pay to solve.
• Distribution Blindness: Assuming a great product sells itself. Easy channels (Product Hunt, social media) are deafeningly saturated.
• Brutal Economics: High compute costs scale linearly or supe ...