My brother is waiting until AI is safe, proven, and regulated. He isn't a fool, he's careful. So was every man who waited out the lightbulb, the automobile, and the internet, right up until the world flipped the switch and left him sitting in the dark.
A Lightspeed Commerce shareholder since 2018 makes the case for a bold strategic pivot before the company writes its own BlackBerry ending. The clock is ticking.
The podcast had a good run. But something just walked in the door that does everything the informational podcast does — faster, deeper, and built entirely for you. Six weeks of experimenting with NotebookLM convinced me we are not watching an evolution. We are watching a replacement. Sorry, Neo was right.
For two decades, SaaS companies built empires on a beautiful, locked-in logic: make switching painful, make customization limited, make implementation expensive. The lock-in was the product. Now AI has destroyed that calculus — and over half a trillion dollars in market value has quietly disappeared to prove it.
Notes Beyond the Map 