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## Segment 4 — attention

## Article 7 — a007

# Jan Kietzmann

## Jan Kietzmann

**Role in the source:** Co-author (cited voice) of the HBR article *"Lessons from Chinese AI Firms on Owning Customers' Habits"*, alongside [[entity-yuanyuan-gina-cui]] and [[entity-patrick-van-esch]].

**Profile:** Contributes to the article's **unified authorial voice**; the source provides no separate biography and does not attribute individual passages to individual authors. All direct quotations are jointly attributed to the trio.

### Attributed contributions to this vault
Joint author of the central [[concept-habit-moat]] thesis and its behavioral-science framing ([[framework-online-habit-conditions]], [[prereq-habit-loop]]), the market-dynamics argument in [[claim-capability-depreciation]], and the executive-warning framing in [[contrarian-ai-not-for-employees]]. Joint author of all quotes, including [[quote-moat-was-routine]] and [[quote-ai-coming-for-customers]].

## Article 69 — a069

# Jan Kietzmann

**Jan Kietzmann** is a professor known for work on social media, AI, and emerging technologies in business, and a **co-author** of the source article, written with [[entity-yuanyuan-gina-cui]] and [[entity-patrick-van-esch]].

**Role in the source:** Co-author. His emerging-technology and platform-strategy lens is most visible in the architectural and strategic sections.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- [[concept-agent-ready-architecture]] and the API-first pivot
- The [[framework-platform-response]] Resist / Adapt / Reinvent taxonomy
- [[claim-api-first-survival]] and the tipping-point evidence in [[claim-tipping-point-2025]]
- The data-asymmetry thesis [[concept-holistic-intent-vs-fragmented-inference]]

**Enrichment note:** Well-known scholar in social media / AI / emerging tech in business; specific affiliation not verified here.