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Lloyd: The VC trope that product quality is not a moat is false
“I feel like there's like a VC trope right now around like, well, product's not a moat. I think that that's like kind of bullshit, especially when everyone else in the market has the same product.”
Lloyd: Google faces a classic innovator's dilemma in AI
“I think Google's a risk. Like, I would never have said that five, 10 years ago. I find myself using ChatGPT more and more, and so I think they have big innovators dilemma problem.”
Zach Lloyd: No AI provider has a strong moat at the API layer
“I don't know that anyone has like a super strong moat at the API layer, just to be totally clear.”
Lloyd: Autocomplete has stronger enterprise PMF than agentic AI
“In the enterprise market, I actually think the thing that has most product market fit is like autocomplete. Which is not the sexiest type of AI. So it's not agentic AI. It's like cursor's original product or even co-pilot.”
Lloyd: OpenAI has an edge over Anthropic because of ChatGPT
“I'm very, very bullish on open AI because I think they have a winning consumer product.”
Lloyd: Webflow is in severe trouble due to advancing AI tools
“So I think Webflow is really, really in a ton of trouble.”
Zach Lloyd: Microsoft screwed up GitHub Copilot
“I guess, but they, like, I think that they kind of screwed up Copilot.”