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Because money. As long as you have those two magic letters in your pitch deck, investors will just pour absurd amounts of money into your project.
100% can confirm.. my tiny employer is sinking tons of man hours into AI.
Does it solve business any need? Nope. But AI!
The AI startup gets money, and the new CEO gets to drive a Ferrari. That’s all that counts. Fulfilling the requests or needs of your clients is just an optional side quest.
Wait.. do you work for my company too? Lol
I don't understand how these investors think this shit is worth anything when consumers clearly don't want it.
But AI is the future! If you don't have AI in your product, you're behind competition!
Investors clearly live in a different world.
It's all greed and fomo
It’s a numbers game. If you invest in 500 AI startups, but one of them becomes the next Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, or Meta, it will easily cover all the losses.
Because they think their product will finally be the one consumers care about, and they don't want someone else to get there first.
Because they have so much money they are ok with a 90% fail rate.
It’s a risky investment.