Puri: AI is the biggest tech wave, but value capture remains unknown
Shaan Puri · How the smartest founders are winning in AI · Jun 4, 2025 · at 1:01:30
Sean Puri compares the generative AI boom to previous mobile and crypto waves, arguing that generational wealth will be created despite total uncertainty over winners.
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“This is going to be the biggest of all of them is the biggest opportunity ever. Right? So everybody agrees on that, but there's complete fog of war because like you're saying, Even the apps that are working get disrupted. There's like so much creative destruction there. One moment you think it's the models that are going to get all the money. Then you think it's Nvidia that's going to get all the money. Then you think it's the applications that are going to get all the money. Nobody knows how to win. Even on the investment side, like the VCs also, you're sitting there and you have this really weird feeling because you know, this is the time when all the money's going to get made. The generational money is going to get made now. You still have no idea where to put it.”
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