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Competitors + AI = Your Problem?
Your Competition Is Already Building With AI While You're Still Thinking About It Two years ago, building a $100 million business required hundreds of employees, massive infrastructure, and years of grinding.
Today, Midjourney hit $500 million in revenue with 10 people in 21 months. Cursor reached $100 million with 20 people in the same timeframe. The rules changed while most people weren't paying attention.
Intelligence used to be expensive. Now it costs pennies. What cost $15 for a million AI tokens three months ago now costs 55 cents with newer models. That's a 95% price drop, and it's accelerating.
While you're debating whether AI is a fad, someone else is using it to build your competitor.
The scary part? You don't need to be technical anymore. Non-engineers are building entire software products in afternoons.
Marketing teams are creating professional ads in minutes instead of waiting weeks for agencies. Customer service is being handled by systems that never sleep. But here's what's really happening: The middle is disappearing.
Average performers who refuse to adapt are getting left behind. Companies are firing entire teams that won't embrace these tools. One founder told me he fired his agency because "they haven't passed on the AI efficiencies to us."
Meanwhile, the people who embrace this are becoming superhuman. They're cutting costs by 80% while increasing output by 10x. They're building features that used to take months in single weekends.
They're creating content that would have required entire departments. The future belongs to small teams doing impossibly big things.
We're heading toward a world where one person with the right AI tools can compete with companies that have hundreds of employees. Where speed matters more than size. Where adaptation beats experience.
The gap between those who get this and those who don't is widening every single day. Your competitors aren't waiting for permission.
They're not forming committees to discuss AI strategy. They're already building, already shipping, already winning.
The question isn't whether AI will change your industry. The question is whether you'll be leading that change or scrambling to catch up.
The game changed. Are you still playing by the old rules?
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