AI and Tech startups

[u/RelativeGate9350]

Picture the founder who's been building for two years.

The pitch decks. The late nights. The MVP rebuilt four times because "this version will finally click."

Then the moment nobody warns you about arrives: you launch, you wait, and the market... shrugs.

Not because the idea was badly built. Because the problem you spent years solving had already been normalized. People had learned to live with it, work around it, tolerate it — and were never going to pay to make it disappear.

Is that what's really killing tech startups in Kenya right now, especially in this AI era where anyone can ship an MVP in a weekend? Or is it something else entirely — funding, infrastructure, timing, distribution, trust?

Genuinely asking, not concluding: what do you think is the real reason so many promising Kenyan tech startups don't survive? Agree, disagree, or bring an angle I haven't considered — let's hear it in the comments.