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There's A New Chasm Before The Chasm — Yannick Dillen (Vlerick) #006
Yannick Dillen teaches entrepreneurship at Vlerick Business School and watches students kill good startup ideas over a 1,000 euro token bill. Meanwhile, Belgian scale-ups that fired their software engineers are quietly reposting the same vacancies. His argument: the zero-employee startup is not the cheap startup. Salary cost became token cost, and the pendulum between AI and software will settle in the middle.
Three claims carry this episode. There is now an extra chasm before the innovators, because every market is flooded with lookalike vibe-coded products, and that is pushing B2B companies…
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