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The Real IP Is How You Think
Most founders are racing to build on top of the foundation models. Dan Pratl is doing something stranger and more interesting: he's betting against them. Or more precisely, he's betting against the assumption that the artifact, the output, the polished deliverable, is the thing that matters. Dan thinks expertise itself is the scarce resource of the AI era, and he's building Quadron to capture, verify, and trade it.
His path to this thesis is improbable. He started his career at the SEC during the Great Recession, watched regulators chase the wrong things, and walked. He moved into open…
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