**What the megafauna extinction can teach us about AI startups and incumbents**

> Why big animals tend to win, why they went extinct, and what the survivors can teach us about competing in the age of LLMs. I was recently in Alaska and saw a massive moose, probably the biggest animal I’d ever seen in person. It got me down a rabbit hole as to why moose are so big, which eventually led me into a fascinating story of evolution and extinction that seems particularly relevant to startups in the a...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：tip
- **发布时间**：2026-09-27 04:10（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/23/megafauna-extinction-and-startups)