' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 395k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: For two decades, the playbook was simple: build a great product, find product-market fit, then layer distribution on top. Marketing was a function. Narrative was a press release. Attention was something you bought or borrowed once you had something worth talking about. When AI lets anyone build faster, copy faster, and bundle faster, the product alone is no longer the moat. The founder's ability to make the right people understand the right thing, before the rest of the market catches up, has become the scarcest input in company building. Erik Torenberg's 'New Media, One Year In' is the clearest articulation yet of this shift. Published in June 2026 as a retrospective on a16z's New Media team, the essay defines the offering bluntly as 'go-direct as a...
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