Infrastructure Software is 'Place to Be' Amid AI Trade, Says Fatima Boolani
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If public markets are rotating from AI application hype to infrastructure software, your multiple and fundraising odds will increasingly track how close you are to the data, security, and orchestration layers. Founders building “AI features” on top of others’ infra should be modeling margin compression and higher CAC against this shift.
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