Matthew Martin

The AI headlines read like a turf war: OpenAI vs Grok vs Anthropic vs Google. Each one rolling out new features in a race to dominate the map. It’s a gang war of models, and every month another capability drops like a drive-by. The collateral damage? Small apps that happen to stand in the path. They don’t die because they were bad ideas. They die because they tried to make a business out of one thing an LLM can now do natively. They got caught in the crossfire. A dart to the heart On the far...

Featuring Quibi - The $2B Social Media Sinkhole In 2020, Hollywood royalty Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks) and tech veteran Meg Whitman (ex-HP, eBay) launched Quibi — short for “quick bites.” It was pitched as the future of mobile video: glossy, studio-quality shows, all under 10 minutes, designed to be watched on your phone. They raised nearly $2 billion before launch. They signed A-list actors, Oscar-winning directors, and celebrity producers. They built out a sleek app with features like...

On LinkedIn, I see founders declare publicly what they are doing with their time without providing any product updates. “We’re building in stealth”, they say, trying to make it sound like they are behind enemy lines to save the world, or keeping a beautiful innovation pristine and clean from human eyes until its completely formed. Newsflash: Nobody is waiting. Nobody cares. And that’s what founders are trying to fight against while unarmed, without money and with finite equity. In the quiet,...