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    Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?

    Gina Gotthilf, Kieran Flanagan, Bryan Kim

    This session synthesizes strategic shifts where founders prioritize sustainable moats like proprietary data and community trust over bloated growth tactics to counter incumbent monopolies. Speakers analyze how AI serves as both a cost-reduction tool and a retention driver while detailing volatile channel dynamics, including the decline of traditional SEO and the rise of interest-based discovery on short-form video platforms. By examining case studies from Snapchat, Duolingo, and Zapier alongside specific experiment frameworks, the discussion outlines a disciplined approach to balancing profitability with iterative product hits in an era of market austerity.