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dangoodmanUTtoday at 1:29 PM1 replyview on HN

These are actually the most durable businesses because they have network effects: restaurants alright signed up, sellers onboarded, etc.

Easier for them to adopt AI than AI companies to rebuild the networks


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inigyoutoday at 1:57 PM

One way to take over a network is to start with an alternative front end. We'll see if this works out for AI companies. First you have the AI consult booking.com whenever someone asks it to book a hotel, then you get more and more hotels to directly communicate with the AI company, then you drop booking.com once you have enough.

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