Ginan: AI startups cannot pause development without risking losing everything
Nico Ginan · Startup Acquisition Stories Ep #112 | Making $250,000 on His Second Sale on Acquire.com · Sep 19, 2024 · at 11:10
Indie hacker Nico Ginan discusses the relentless competitive pressure in the AI market that drove his decision to sell his app TalkNotes.
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“Since it's AI, AI moves super fast. So within a few months you get new competitors and stuff like that. So it's not possible to just Do nothing when you have something in AI, in my opinion, just too much stress. So that's one of the major reasons that I wanted to exit because I couldn't afford to like, if I waited one or two months, I basically could be left with nothing.”
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