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The Inevitability Reflex

What Trillion-Dollar Bets on Uncertain Outcomes Reveal About Corporate Psychology

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A Z Mackay
Jul 25, 2025
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The Question Nobody’s Asking

By the time you finish this paragraph, another million dollars will have poured into AI ventures. The surge from $3 billion in 2022 to $25.2 billion in 2023 wasn’t growth. It was combustion. Venture capitalists now control over 70% of this river of capital, each hunting for the next OpenAI like it’s the last escape pod on a b…

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