The Darwinian nature of on-demand business
summary
Argues that the on‑demand wave follows a Cambrian explosion into an on-demand winnowing where a few winners scale by changing underlying economics, with frequency-heavy categories like food and transport proving durable; predicts delivery will become AWS‑like infrastructure that apps build experiences on top of; calls out deep learning, image recognition and NLP as the engines of new services and warns of a bots hype cycle; gives concrete examples: deep learning augmenting radiology and personalized drugs via genomics and CRISPR.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to on-demand economy
- 1:02Survival of the fittest in tech
- 3:24Permanence in consumer demand
- 6:30Experience as the new product
- 9:40Future of AI and automation
- 13:24Personalized healthcare revolution
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