[Xirdus]

This only works if your business is large enough that you and all your competitors aren't expected to have humans doing everything already, but small enough that going AI won't boost your valuation by much. My intuition is that the intersection is pretty much empty.

[d_silin]

Who says "valuation"? I am talking about "profits", something that none of the the upcoming IPO debutantes have managed to achieve.

[Xirdus]

For the founders, IPO/merger is pure profit. They don't care what happens afterwards.