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It’s not about the cost, it’s about being able to switch

Half of tech is waiting for the AI bubble to burst as if the bursting itself were the liberation. It isn’t. When it bursts, what comes is not the reward for those who saw it coming, but the bill for everyone who hung half their business on the API of a single American lab. Who ends up paying is decided not at the moment it pops, but in the months before.

15. July 2026

Article, Podcast

15. July 2026

It’s not about the cost, it’s about being able to switch

Article, Podcast

1. July 2026

Sovereignty has left the territory

Why sovereignty does not come from Brussels but from entrepreneurs who build the best product….

Article, Podcast

17. June 2026

Use the best AI today, or be left behind tomorrow

While a German mid-sized company is still drafting the policy that bans ChatGPT, its American competitor ships its third AI feature. This is not…

Article, Podcast

3. June 2026

How the Mittelstand attracts and retains the best AI and engineering talent

A few weeks ago I wrote that more efficient employees do not make a company more valuable. The same pattern has a second layer….

Article, Podcast

20. May 2026

The inference shift kills the PE model, not the portfolios

In every board meeting and every founder circle, the same question gets raised. What does AI mean for our business model. Consultants deliver answers….

Article, Podcast

6. May 2026

Death of the Middle

If you read the U.S. business press, you see it every week. Restaurant chains, software vendors, mid-tier consulting firms. A particular kind of company…

Article, Podcast

22. April 2026

AI Efficient Employees Don’t Make Companies More Valuable

In 1984, General Motors launched the most expensive automation program in its history. FANUC robots, cameras, sensors, everything available at the time. Machines in,…

Article, Podcast

8. April 2026

Who Builds Order?

There are moments when perspective widens. When the conversation shifts from quarterly reports, interest rate decisions, or election cycles to long waves, empires, and…

Article, Podcast

25. March 2026

The AI Service Operator

When Agents of Chaos gets written about it will be framed as a warning about uncontrollable AI. About security gaps, data loss, manipulation. That’s…

Article, Podcast

3. June 2026

How the Mittelstand attracts and retains the best AI and engineering talent

A few weeks ago I wrote that more efficient employees do not make a company more valuable. The same pattern has a second layer….

Article, Podcast

20. May 2026

The inference shift kills the PE model, not the portfolios

In every board meeting and every founder circle, the same question gets raised. What does AI mean for our business model. Consultants deliver answers….

Article, Podcast

6. May 2026

Death of the Middle

If you read the U.S. business press, you see it every week. Restaurant chains, software vendors, mid-tier consulting firms. A particular kind of company…

Article, Podcast

22. April 2026

AI Efficient Employees Don’t Make Companies More Valuable

In 1984, General Motors launched the most expensive automation program in its history. FANUC robots, cameras, sensors, everything available at the time. Machines in,…

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Stefan Fritz

Stefan Fritz is an author, founder, entrepreneur and investor. He founded his first company while still studying physics, which was soon followed by others. As the founder of synaix GmbH, he has built up numerous digital as-a-service and platform business models as well as software-based solution portfolios over 25 years. Today, he is a partner at PRIMEPULSE, an investment company that focuses on B2B DeepTech business models for venture capital, SMEs and listed companies.

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