Everyone is chasing the conventional model. Smart capital is chasing the infrastructure underneath it. Don't chase the wrong dog. A breakdown of the 7 tiers of AI economics and where serious investors should be paying attention. There is a version of the AI investment story that gets told constantly. It involves foundation models, large language interfaces, AI-native apps, and the race to build the next Chatgpt. It's the wrong chase. Most AI startups being built right now w

Innovation in capital markets rarely comes from novelty alone. More often, it comes from reassessment — from asking sharper questions about assets that already exist. Not what was this built to do , but what else can this support ? A recent infrastructure project in Switzerland offers a useful illustration. At a decommissioned satellite teleport in the Alps, massive satellite dishes — once critical to global communications — are being repurposed as solar-tracking energy syste