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What patterns appear across thousands of AI startup pitches?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Radical lean teams, SMB software, overlooked compliance plays.

The core problem is that AI, by design, is average. It’s spectacular at pattern recognition and synthesis, but it produces the most statistically likely output — not the most surprising, not the most brave, not the most emotionally resonant. ### What Made Steve Jobs Leadership Special Let’s look at Apple in the iPod era.

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awesome. Now, we tried to actually welcome you by using ElevenLabs with an Irish accent and saying, “Hello, Savita our distinguished speaker.” Now, when you look at the text-to-speech industry, like you were at a startup, you got acquired by Cisco, and now generative AI comes in. ElevenLabs is funded throughout the roof. And why is that?

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