This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "If you're not playing with all the tools and trying to build apps on top of them, you're already obsolete," Blank told BI. "The pieces of the lean startup are just so obvious to me to be automated and then strung together. But then a lot of it won't tell you when it's not working," Blank told BI. From Blank's perspective, one side of entrepreneurship that is safe in the emerging AI world is the role of the visionary founder.

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