Those weight-loss drugs like Wegovy do not have joy because they’re disrupting the weight-loss via dieting and exercising industry. Yes, before the arrival of those drugs, people had two core options to lose weight: eat well and exercise. But today, those are no more key requirements as just by taking some drugs, the pounds will go!
Weight Watchers is one of the casualties of this redesign: “Wellness giant Weight Watchers has filed for bankruptcy protection. Founded as a weight-loss program more than 60 years ago, Weight Watchers has undergone several strategic pivots in recent years and faced pressure from the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, which it belatedly began offering through its own telehealth platform.” – LinkedIn News
Good People, this is what we call disruption in the market. What these drugs are doing to the decades-old weight-loss sector which Weight Watchers has participated is what AI will do to many SaaS (software as a service) companies. Largely, you are going to see a new basis of competition that will decouple many software companies and take them out of the market. I have argued that many SaaS companies will expire in Africa if they do not evolve for the AI era.
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Did you notice something? The company which took down Weight Watchers does not look like it. That is an asymmetric competitor which may not even show signals on the company’s path, but when the light flashes, it can blur growth vision and destroy a business.
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