Co-Founder at Y Combinator
Disrupting entrenched tech monopolies like search engines cannot be achieved by attacking them head-on with identical products. You must wait for a paradigm shift that renders the legacy model obsolete. Conversational AI interfaces demonstrated that users sought direct synthesis of information rather than indexed lists of web links, transforming search behavior completely.
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