Wilkinson: Home services and brick-and-mortar face robotics risk in 10-20 years
Andrew Wilkinson · AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson) · May 4, 2026 · at 26:43
Tiny co-founder Andrew Wilkinson discusses the long-term defensibility of non-tech businesses with host Greg Isenberg.
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“I'm either buying like something with a moat, which is very, very hard to find certainly in technology right now home services, businesses, like very, very brick and mortar kind of stuff. But even that I think is at risk with robotics over the next 1020 years.”
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