We're Not Their Competition. We're Their Growth Channel.

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We’re Not Their Competition. We’re Their Growth Channel.

Why the defensibility question for a vertical AI application is the wrong question — and what to ask instead

The question arrives in the first ten minutes of almost every conversation about a vertical AI company, and it always carries a faint note of gotcha. What happens when the big platform decides to do this themselves? The room leans in. It is treated as the question the founder has been avoiding, the soft spot under the thesis. And the instinct is to answer it on its own terms — to start describing the wall, the feature lead, the data advantage, the head start. To argue, in other words, that you can out-run a company a thousand times your size on its own track.

Strategy on BumbleB Technologies

We're Not Their Competition. We're Their Growth Channel.

We’re Not Their Competition. We’re Their Growth Channel.

Why the defensibility question for a vertical AI application is the wrong question — and what to ask instead