Position yourself for the AI economy: which businesses to build, which skills to compound, which assets to own, and which work to hand to machines.
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5 lenses to uncover hidden business ideas, plus a 100-point index to compare the strongest ones
🫡 Hi, I’m Melvin. At Capital of One, we study the AI economy like an investor studies a market. But instead of positioning a portfolio, you po...
A Guide to Finding Distribution Plays While They Are Still Strange, Cheap and Hard to Copy
🫡 Hi, I’m Melvin. At Capital of One, we study the AI economy like an investor studies a market. But instead of positioning a portfolio, you position yourself: your work, skills, assets, relationships and attention. Every week, we bring you...
Why There Is Still No Competition
AI made building easy and everyone mistook it for winning.
The man whose every video promises a six-figure business you can build this weekend profits from the confusion. Copy this prompt, one-shot this SaaS, let this agent run your busine...
How Small Datasets Become High-Margin Businesses
Capital Play #003: Build an information asset AI still has to rely on.
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AI Is Learning What Deserves Your Attention
Capital Signal #003: AI can now decide what deserves another machine or you.
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