Why "let's wait until AI matures" is a closing-time decision dressed up as caution
Retailers in 1998 watched the internet and decided to wait until it stabilized.
By 2008, the lead was a decade deep and the door was closed. They didn't get a calmer market — they got a closed store. Stop waiting for the wave. Get on the board.
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for the first $1B one-person company. The lead is being built right now.
You don't wait for the wave. You get on the board.
Three pieces from the last 30 days that reinforce this analogy. Forward to the executive who's still calling it hype.
Anthropic's own CEO putting a window on it: seven months to be early on the $1B one-person company. The store that waits closes.
Read the original →Anthropic's full workshop on building with agents — the gap between teams already doing it and teams "waiting" is widening by the week.
Read the original →The architecture for skipping the wait is already shipping. The internet didn't get smaller while the holdouts thought it over.
Read the original →The catalog is free. The live session is where The Store That Waited for the Internet gets applied to your specific stuck conversation — built for boards, ELTs, and founder-CEO 1:1s. Half-day, $7,500.