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by fontain 72 days ago
The opposite of an “A.I” company, he is reselling the services of another filled with humans. A great, profitable business, sure, a notable success, yes, but a 2-man billion dollar company made possible by A.I? No. Businesses like this have existed for decades and are vulnerable to their service providers stealing the business out from under them.
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jimnotgym 72 days ago
A very astute comment.

While the service providers are experiencing massive growth they are happy to share. When growth plateaus they will go after every cost reduction, including squeezing out non-value added resellers. Especially those with warning letters from the FDA for making false claims, as noted below.

As a distributor your value add was always making me markets. Once made, those markets are now trivial to take direct unless there is some advantage to having a local take a risk on stock- holding. I have worked in distribution and seen Amazon refuse to deal with the distributor and go direct as soon as they see decent sales, for instance.

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daniel_martinez 71 days ago
he's making 400M+, so not a big deal, the distribution leverage is massive and now it's time to pivot and add real value appart from the huge brand he has now, i.e. through a unique customer support or who knows what. anyways, after 400M, one can say he already won the game
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sharemywin 72 days ago
but this is the opposite right? they own the customer relationship. Amazon does the opposite. They control the customer relationship. Can the supplier raise prices possibly but so can they middle man. if they turn over the relationship to the provider then use bad business.
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samsolomon 72 days ago
Well, this guy isn't training models in his basement—if that's what you're looking for?

I think the point of this article is that AI enables people to do so much more? Much of marketing is creating engaging content and AI allows people to create more than ever.

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strange_quark 72 days ago
I’m struggling to see how anything he did is AI at all. Literally everything about his company is outsourced to an army of contracting firms. All this guy did was generate a marketing site that was filled with fraud.
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jimnotgym 72 days ago
Seems that a motivated person with the right skillset could have done this with traditional tools. A WordPress site, a copywriter of Fivver etc.
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