AI will create 100x more vertical software startups than we've ever seen

style boom, where anyone can build software for anything.

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style boom, where anyone can build software for anything. Right? Like, one, you're kinda starting to see starting to see this play out in the AI startup scene where softwares became a lot more vertical oriented, where, like, these verticals, like, creating some AI tool for some vertical tends to work quite well because, you know, you really lean into, that particular domain. You, like, really understand the use case part. And so if you play out AI, there's no reason why you can't have, like, 100 x more of these these startups.

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Sherwin Wu predicts we're entering a new era where AI enables a massive boom in vertical-specific software companies. He argues that AI tools work particularly well when focused on specific industries because they can deeply understand particular use cases and domains, leading to potentially 100x more startups than currently exist.

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This is a bold quantitative prediction about the future scale of AI-enabled vertical software companies that challenges assumptions about market saturation.

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