YBAWS! Growing Corporate Value and Marketability

YBAWS! Growing Corporate Value and Marketability

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What Happens When AI Copies You?

In 2026, every non-AI founder faces a brutal new diligence question: what happens when AI does what you do? AI-native startups command up to a 41 percent valuation premium, everyone else get

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Sean Cavanagh YBAWS!
Jul 08, 2026
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The New Question in Every Room

In an earlier post we watched AI vacuum up the money. Now it does something more personal. It interrogates your defensibility. The polite version arrives in every diligence call, and it is the same question dressed in different suits: what happens when the next Claude or GPT ships this natively, and your clever feature beco…

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