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Most AI startups die before they even ship.
Worse: they spend months building the wrong thing.
This week on Zero to One, Ankur Patel (Multimodal / AgentFlow) dropped some of the clearest, most brutal (and useful) advice we’ve heard for anyone trying to go from zero to one in enterprise AI. 💡
5 hard truths for builders:
- Speed is your only moat Foundation models evolve weekly. If you’re not shipping fast, you’re irrelevant. Velocity beats architecture, funding, and cleverness.
- Pick your wedge and obsess Startups that try to be a platform from day one don’t make it. Start wide → feel for the pull → double down on 1–3 use cases people will pay for.
- Trust is more important than tech Enterprises won’t deploy agents that feel like black boxes. You ...
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