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Re:Making Startups Powerful by armchairhacker on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:47PM (#49686560)
What are some recent powerful startups?

The only ones I've seen are AI grifters (not even useful AI) and Polymarket/Kalshi, which makes me cynical; although I've seen some decent startups that are small (i.e. non-powerful) but nonetheless profitable.

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Re:Making Startups Powerful by brazukadev on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:10PM (#49690596)
Isn't Anthropic and OpenAI still startups? Even though they have big revenue, their business model isn't proved yet and there is a big chance they gonna fail and so most of the AI startups.
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Re:Making Startups Powerful by armchairhacker on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:53AM (#49693370)
OpenAI launched 10 years ago

Anthropic launched only 5, but was built from connections to OpenAI

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Re:Making Startups Powerful by brazukadev on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:27AM (#49695714)
Launch date is not what defines a startup.
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Re:Making Startups Powerful by mosesk on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:59PM (#49720915)
How do you define a startup?
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Re:Making Startups Powerful by tim333 on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:44AM (#49695915)
>Legora: Operates as an agentic operating system built for modern legal work

seems to be doing well (https://x.com/paulg/status/2095997934584160647)?

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