Midjourney Prompt: "a rocket taking off from a launch pad, moon in the distant sky, watercolor"

A Few Things I Believe About AI

Taking time for a 10,000 foot perspective

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don't you mean "vertically integrate"?

this is super insightful!!!

Dan Shipper about 2 years ago

@vidy I went back and forth between vertically and horizontally. the definition i'm working off of is "vertically integrate" means anything that a company would normally pay a supplier or vendor for, and "horizontally integrates" means anything that a company's customers would normally pay someone else for.

but i could be wrong!

@danshipper oh that makes a lot of sense!!

@vidy @danshipper There might be various interpretations but I also thought it should be vertical integration. The way that I think of it is that in software consumers are often the one stitching together vendors and suppliers. If you buy an iPhone, Apple must figure out how to get all the physical components into the phone but if you use Midjourney, you have to figure out how to touch up, crop, and publish the image.

“”” “horizontally integrates" means anything that a company's customers would normally pay someone else for.”””

I interpreted that as being alternatives to the company itself since the customer might pay someone else to solve the same problem e.g. Airbnb expanding to operating hotels would be horizontal.

Anyway, great piece as always! I think being able to build with AI, speak to it as a writer and business thinker reveals truly unique insights.

@travailler.avec.emulation about 2 years ago

This is insightful article. Read on 4/25/2023.
"Startups that are horizontally integrated over a process will be dominant"
"In other words, they started out as an API-only, but realized that the best way to improve performance was to integrate forward over more layers of the value chain so that they could get direct access to their customers' data."
Memo to myself: https://share.glasp.co/kei/?p=TolNDPEmLMj1NH2uJ554

Tomás Flores over 1 year ago

Arrived here for the "first part" required to the "AI ChatBot Workshop" and stayed for the cookies.

Dan Shipper over 1 year ago

@tomas.flores.art welcome!!