Request for Startups – Spring 2025

Then you should have seen the "belt-tightening of the '80's" :(

Wouldn't have made it through that without it being fertile enough ground without computerization to begin with. That became a niche I always favored, where there is opportunity without a computer, but eventually when introduced properly, puts everything on steroids.

There is a parallel to what I've seen from Manual > Computerized, being somewhat "analogous" with "Merely" Computerized > AI Enhanced.

Caldwell is the furthest outlier, if you boiled it down to "a deep focus on getting the most out of limited hardware resources were critical." And "this includes this kind of maniacal focus from the founders themselves."

I wonder why his "video has been removed by the uploader" now though.

You don't really have to specifically imply AI or even computers at all.

DeepSeek, Google, and Carmack are well-recognized examples where these type of fundamental characteristics can be leveraged in the "computer business", but there's a whole world of other businesses out there.

Beyond the layer where there's still a whole lot of further computer opportunity without including AI.

AI can be pretty "deep", it's possible when you're entrenched in it, it becomes less easy to see outside the trench than others ;)