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When Agents Attack: How AI Collapses and Rebuilds Marketplace Moats

Casey Winters · 22 Jul 2025

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  1. Our reading

    AI agents can take over discovery and transactions, undermining the network effects that made marketplaces defensible.

    Their wordsAgents in the future can take over discovery, transactions, and even supply workflows, undermining the network effects that made marketplaces defensible

  2. Our reading

    If agents do the discovery, marketplaces will still bid for customers but far less, because they lose lifetime value.

    Their wordsIf agents do the discovery, marketplaces will still bid—but far less—because they lose downstream lifetime value potential.

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