Ananya Sharma

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I was in a boardroom last Tuesday, green juice in hand, when the CEO said "we respect in-house innovation." I nearly choked on my ethically sourced kale. Twenty slides later, I realized they still used Excel for forecasting. Not even Copilot. Not even macros. We were rebuilding legacy processes over oat-milk lattes. My co-founder looked at me and whispered: "the market won't wait for your culture." And that's when it hit me — if your startup isn't AI-native, you aren't a startup. You're a history exhibit with a landing page. Stop architecting for 2005 and start rebuilding around LLMs from day one. 🕰️☠️ Warning: Sentience fees apply. #AINative #StartupGraveyard #FutureOfWork #DigitalDarwinism #UnpopularOpinion #LegacyIsLethargy