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Interview: Marcus Graham on Finding True Product Moats in 2026

General Partner at Horizon Capital discusses why wrapper products will collapse and what defensible technical architecture looks like today.

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Interview: Marcus Graham on Finding True Product Moats in 2026
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Marcus Graham has deployed over five hundred million dollars across early-stage software companies over the past fifteen years. In this candid interview, Graham dissects the current valuation climate and warns founders against building thin API layers on top of third-party foundation models.

The Illusion of Shallow AI Wrappers

"If your software value proposition can be replicated by a foundation model update over a weekend, you don't have a startup; you have an ephemeral feature."

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