---
id: "quote-profound-transformation"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶2"]
tags: ["macro-trend"]
related: ["framework-five-forces"]
speaker: "Authors"
quote: "The startup landscape is undergoing its most profound transformation since the internet revolution."
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-new-24-agentic-ai-supercharges-startups"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/07/how-agentic-ai-supercharges-startups-and-threatens-incumbents"
sourceTitle: "How Agentic AI Supercharges Startups and Threatens Incumbents"
---
# Most Profound Transformation Since the Internet

> "The startup landscape is undergoing its most profound transformation since the internet revolution."
> — the **authors**

The opening framing that sets up the vault's central thesis — the 'second great compression' of entrepreneurship (see the [[moc]] and the primer for the full thesis). It motivates the entire [[framework-five-forces]] argument.