As AI tools increasingly handle tasks once reserved for engineering teams, the startup playbook is being rewritten—shifting the decisive advantage from capital and headcount toward execution speed, product judgment, and the ability to encode taste into machines.
That was the central message from Ryu Gi-baek, founder of Palette Studios, during a fireside discussion with Evan, CEO of VRL, at ‘MetaCon 2026’, a major AI conference held in Seoul on Friday UTC (Thursday ET). The event ran July 3–4 at COEX’s Grand Ballroom and was hosted by TV Chosun with TokenPost as co-organizer under the theme… Read more







