This week, This Week in Startups examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping startup strategy and valuation across the board. From Bespoke's unconventional path to building a functioning AI product to Airtable's dramatic down-round and what it signals about investor expectations, the episodes reveal a widening gap between AI winners and losers in the current market. The through-line: startups that can demonstrate real utility—whether through iteration, honest pivots, or defensible unit economics—are navigating the AI era more successfully than those relying on hype alone.
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