Most founders using AI today are building the same thing.

Same prompts. Same outputs. Same products.

So the real question isn't "How do I use AI?"

It's "How do I stay differentiated when everyone has access to the same models?"

This week on Zero to One, we sat down with Olivier Toubia, professor at Columbia Business School and a leading researcher on AI, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

💡 Some of the themes we explored:

🎙️ AI increases productivity, not differentiation

🎙️ Your unique context is the moat

🎙️ The bottleneck has shifted to execution and distribution

🎙️ Human judgment matters more than ever

🎙️ AI is a tool, not the strategy

This episode is worth your time if you’re building in AI and trying to figure out what actually creates a MOAT in the next generation of startups. 🚀

Most AI startups die before they even ship.

Worse: they spend months building the wrong thing.

This week on Zero to One, Ankur Patel (Multimodal / AgentFlow) dropped some of the clearest, most brutal (and useful) advice we’ve heard for anyone trying to go from zero to one in enterprise AI. 💡

5 hard truths for builders:

1. Speed is your only moat Foundation models evolve weekly. If you’re not shipping fast, you’re irrelevant. Velocity beats architecture, funding, and cleverness.
2. Pick your wedge and obsess Startups that try to be a platform from day one don’t make it. Start wide → feel for the pull → double down on 1–3 use cases people will pay for.
3. Trust is more important than tech Enterprises won’t deploy agents that feel like black boxes. You need: traceability, sandbox validation, human-in-the-loop checks, clear ROI. No trust = no production.
4. Being an outsider is an edge If you’re young and don’t know the rules of the industry, good. You’ll move faster and see opportunities incumbents overlook.
5. Failure is leverage now Failing at a startup doesn’t hurt your career anymore, it accelerates it. You’ll either win or become 10x more valuable.

This episode is worth your time if you’re building in AI and trying to get real traction.

What’s your biggest blocker going from zero to one? Drop it in the comments.

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🚨 What if your business school was built by the founder of YouTube?

Or Waze. Or Shazam.

🎙️ Meet Roy Wellner, cofounder of Augment, the online business school delivering premium courses taught by world-class operators. Augment is rethinking what modern education should actually look like.

🔍 In this episode, we dive into:

👉 Why classic MBA programs aren’t built for founders

👉 The OpenAI insight that made AI literacy a non-negotiable part of Augment

👉 How Augment built a curriculum where students actually finish

👉 Why Roy believes your distribution strategy matters more than your product

💡 Plus: Roy’s reflections on full dedication, raising $2M with just a deck, and building something he wishes he had as a student