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Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.

Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

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