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Founders · readonpaper.substack.com · Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Code Got Fast. Relationships Didn't: The Case That Sales Is the New Bottleneck

AI collapsed build time from months to minutes, but as ex-VC Monica Desai argues, you can't compress a relationship. With enterprise budgets growing ~2% against an 85% surge in AI funding, someone still has to close that gap in person, making storytelling and customer proximity the new founder edge.

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