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Investors swore they'd never back AI model companies. "No moat."

Name: Investors swore they'd never back AI model companies. "No moat."
Uploaded: 2026-11-06T16:19:09.000Z
Channel: Guillermo Flor
Description: Investors swore they'd never back AI model companies. "No moat." a16z's Martin Casado says they got it wrong, and explains why. Casado, General Partner at a16z: 1. In a growing market, companies don't fight. They move into new white space 2. When a market shrinks, it consolidates whatever the…

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Investors swore they'd never back AI model companies. "No moat." a16z's Martin Casado says they got it wrong, and explains why. Casado, General Partner at a16z: 1. In a growing market, companies don't fight. They move into new white space 2. When a market shrinks, it consolidates whatever the moats look like 3. So defensibility rarely decides the outcome 4. Investors said models would never accrue value. Look at Anthropic and OpenAI 5. They said the same about neoclouds In a market growing as fast as AI, the size of the market matters more than the moat. Full breakdown here: https://www.t

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