Motley Fool Money · Friday, September 11, 2026
The hosts discuss how AI is removing the historical 'mote' of difficulty in creating businesses and services, such as online investment clubs. While this increases accessibility for new entrants, it also intensifies competition, forcing established players to focus on unique, non-replicable strengths.
“But there was a degree of a mote for one of a better term in the difficulty of doing sort of things. And that has gone.”
“Could could someone stand up a competitor to the money fool? Easily than what we had to to build it? Yes. Could they have built a strawman equivalent? Yes.”
“Because the only thing I'm getting from this software that I'm currently paying for is that it just, it just does the calculations and the data, the record keeping, just better than pen and paper.”