Fonseca: Only distribution, data, and workflows create GenAI moats
Lucy Fonseca · 6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners · Mar 1, 2024 · at 19:57
Lucy Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners, shares how the venture firm refined its framework on software defensibility in the generative AI era.
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“But now TJ and I are pretty sure that only three things matter, and it's whether you can distribute, so it's distribution, it's your data, and it's the workflows. Only these three things matter.”
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