alt Hacker NewsSimilar to "needs to be a platform" [0], another variant is "be a data company" where somehow the underpants gnomes will transform your moat of stored information into profit.
[0] Read: "Needs to be pitch-able to investors as a magical 1000x growth unicorn."
it's no longer a theory. google paid millions for spirit airlines' emails and internal messages to be used as training data for their AIs.