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AI apps' large TAM precludes acquisition by incumbents
A specific risk for high-valuation AI application companies was framed: their inflated valuations, justified by a larger total addressable market (TAM), make them too expensive for the legacy incumbents they aim to disrupt to acquire.
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REVIVED · 44 MENTIONS · 33 EPISODES · 17 SHOWS
12 SEP 2025 — 13 AUG 2026 · 5D AGO
19 SUPPORT · 4 CHALLENGE · 4 UPDATE · 2 REPEAT · 15 MENTIONED
- THE BUSINESS BREW
14 EPISODES BETWEEN · 22 MENTIONS
- THE BUSINESS BREW
- THE TIM FERRISS SHOW
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- THE ACQUIRERS PODCAST
- THE MEB FABER SHOW
- YET ANOTHER VALUE PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 6 MENTIONS
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY
- THE ACQUIRERS PODCAST
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
- Installed base as a trap for incumbents
- AI apps' large TAM precludes acquisition by incumbents · THIS IDEA
11 EPISODES BETWEEN · 13 MENTIONS
- THE BUSINESS BREW · 2 MENTIONS
- THE POMP PODCAST
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- EXCESS RETURNS
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
- A16Z PODCAST
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
- A16Z PODCAST
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- BANKLESS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY
- EXCESS RETURNS
- A16Z PODCAST
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC
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