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id: "quote-strategic-litmus-test"
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tags: ["strategy", "evaluation"]
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speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
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sourceVaultSlug: "s28-5-safe-places"
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# The Strategic Litmus Test

## Quote

> **"What do I own that still matters if AI gets 10 times better?"**
>
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones|Nate B. Jones]]

## Context

The central question every founder must ask to evaluate their business's durability against advancing AI. This quote *is* the [[framework-strategic-litmus-test]] in compressed form.

## Why This Matters

This is the single most operationally useful artifact in the entire talk. Every other concept in this vault — the [[framework-5-durable-verticals|5 verticals]], the [[concept-thin-wrappers|wrapper]] critique, the [[contrarian-training-not-moat|runtime moat]] argument — is downstream of this question.

If a founder remembers nothing else from this material, they should remember this question.