AI Isn’t Democratizing Startups
It’s Swallowing Venture Capital
AI Was Supposed To Open The Field
For a while, the story was simple.
AI would make small teams more powerful.
One person could build more.
A startup could move faster.
A founder could do work that used to require a team.
That part is still true.
But the funding picture is starting to tell a different story.
AI may make creation easier.
But frontier AI is making competition more expensive.
