How did your 2012 prediction of frighteningly ambitious ideas play out with companies like OpenAI?
Replied byPaul Graham
Co-Founder at Y Combinator
Niche: Finance
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Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Started: 2005
Disrupting entrenched tech monopolies like search engines cannot be achieved by attacking them head-on with identical products. You must wait for a paradigm shift that renders the legacy model obsolete. Conversational AI interfaces demonstrated that users sought direct synthesis of information rather than indexed lists of web links, transforming search behavior completely.
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