Dan Hockenmaier
Marketplace and growth strategist; director of growth at Thumbtack, a partner at Reforge, and head of strategy and analytics, later chief strategy officer, at Faire; writes Dan Hock's Essays.
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Their wordsThis is one reason that travel is the best near-term monetization opportunity for agents.
↗How scared should Amazon be of agents?danhock.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn these industries, managed marketplaces that pool resources to efficiently fund trust and logistics are the winning recipe. That’s the case for all of the most valuable marketplaces, including Amazon, Uber, and DoorDash.
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Their wordsThe risk of this outcome is ratcheting up, because rapid AI adoption is making everyone’s early numbers look good, attracting huge rounds and extreme competition in the process. When the tide goes out, who among Lovable, Suno, ElevenLabs, Harvey, Gamma, and the labs themselves is going to be swimming without a moat?
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Their wordsDistribution isn’t success in itself, but an opportunity to capture it. It’s the very first step in building a moat.
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Their wordsBut strategy is best practiced in a loop with execution, not as something that precedes it. You have to just start building, assess what you learned, adjust, and start again.
↗How to Build a High-Growth Operating System: 9 Lessons from 9 Years at Fairedanhock.co
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AI will replace spreadsheets used for execution, because those spreadsheets are just janky software.
Their wordsAI will indeed replace a lot of this because the spreadsheet is just janky software, and AI will make it easy to build non-janky software.
↗How to Use AI Without Losing Your Minddanhock.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut if you’re writing a strategy doc or an essay or your senior thesis, the point is that you have to do the writing yourself to figure out what you’re trying to say. Writing is how you learn.
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Their wordsCertainly for chip manufacturers, and probably for the frontier model companies, the scale economies curve has again shifted out. At this point, it’s difficult to imagine anyone but an incumbent with existing scale entering the competition.