Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
We’ve been using AI completely wrong. We treat it like a cheap ghostwriter, churning out soulless, bloated text that we immediately have to rewrite anyway. The real breakthrough isn’t AI that writes from scratch—it’s a tireless, brutally honest editor that forces you to sharpen your own ideas.
Decagon’s co-founder Ashwin Sreenivas reveals how he and his co-founder faked two offices in a one-bedroom apartment to land enterprise clients — and why the real secret to product-market fit is targeting knowledgeable buyers, not fabricating differentiation. The brutal truth: if you have to convince a customer, they don’t have the problem.
While the world obsesses over AI chatbots and image generators, a16z’s latest investments reveal a different truth: the real value lies in automating the boring, complex, high-friction work of tax prep, construction bids, and elderly care. These ‘dirty tasks’ are where defensible AI moats are built—and where the biggest opportunities await.