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Gokul (Gokul Rajaram) explains why utility-based software companies like Zendesk are more exposed to AI than systems of record like NetSuite, and why public markets aren't distinguishing between the two: "The software companies that should be the most worried right now is where they are pricing the product based...

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@gokulr I think this is the part the market keeps missing. Seat-based software is in trouble because AI shrinks the seats. Systems of record are the opposite, the data is the moat.

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@gokulr Same rule across every ledger: agents propose, a named person posts and signs.

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The Zendesk-versus-NetSuite distinction is a useful way to think about where AI pressure lands first: workflows with a clear task and weak switching costs are easier to unbundle. Systems that quietly hold the source of truth have a different kind of durability, even as the interface changes.

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etn.

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Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow reveals companies are using dynamic algorithmic pricing to charge Americans more based on your data She says this is even being used to increase rents - A $240 flight to Florida increased to $423 because you looked twice - Uber pricing doubled because phone battery was below 20% “Usually it's about 18 bucks, but oh, the app knows that your phone battery is low, so it's double the price. Companies are using algorithmic pricing tools to study your personal data and charge you exactly what they think you'll pay. This is called surveillance pricing, and it means that companies can charge you completely different prices for the exact same thing, and it's not just happening to consumers. Some companies are now using similar algorithms to track workers and decide their wages, hours, and schedules, even their locations — My plan bans companies from setting personalized prices based on your data — It protects all workers, including gig workers and contractors from algorithmic wage discrimination, and it cracks down on companies using these systems to coordinate things like higher rents and insurance premiums, because the economy shouldn't be a rigged game.”
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Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow reveals companies are using dynamic algorithmic pricing to charge Americans more based on your data She says this is even being used to increase rents - A $240 flight to Florida increased to $423 because you looked twice - Uber pricing doubled because phone battery was below 20% “Usually it's about 18 bucks, but oh, the app knows that your phone battery is low, so it's double the price. Companies are using algorithmic pricing tools to study your personal data and charge you exactly what they think you'll pay. This is called surveillance pricing, and it means that companies can charge you completely different prices for the exact same thing, and it's not just happening to consumers. Some companies are now using similar algorithms to track workers and decide their wages, hours, and schedules, even their locations — My plan bans companies from setting personalized prices based on your data — It protects all workers, including gig workers and contractors from algorithmic wage discrimination, and it cracks down on companies using these systems to coordinate things like higher rents and insurance premiums, because the economy shouldn't be a rigged game.”

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Ricardo

1,816,835 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

Jensen Huang just said this is the greatest era in history to build software. AI agents will not kill software. They will do the exact opposite: create a massive new wave of software demand. at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 "Click and type. We now replace that with explaining to the AI what we want, our intent, and the AI generates the code or uses tools to produce the necessary output. This is how computers are going to work in the future. This is Agentic AI. For two years, we've been building toward this, and now it has arrived. One of the big breakthroughs, of course, is tool use. A lot of people have said, “Jensen, AI is coming. Agentic AI is coming. Therefore, all the software companies are going to go out of business.” This is exactly the opposite. Because there are going to be so many agents, the world is no longer limited by the number of people. Therefore, those agents are going to use more tools than ever. This is actually an incredible time to be a software company. But the software has to be presented to the agent in a way that the agent can use it. This is a big breakthrough. And in fact, what we have done, as you know, what Nvidia’s treasure..." ---- From 'NVIDIA' YT channel (link in comment)
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Jensen Huang just said this is the greatest era in history to build software. AI agents will not kill software. They will do the exact opposite: create a massive new wave of software demand. at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 "Click and type. We now replace that with explaining to the AI what we want, our intent, and the AI generates the code or uses tools to produce the necessary output. This is how computers are going to work in the future. This is Agentic AI. For two years, we've been building toward this, and now it has arrived. One of the big breakthroughs, of course, is tool use. A lot of people have said, “Jensen, AI is coming. Agentic AI is coming. Therefore, all the software companies are going to go out of business.” This is exactly the opposite. Because there are going to be so many agents, the world is no longer limited by the number of people. Therefore, those agents are going to use more tools than ever. This is actually an incredible time to be a software company. But the software has to be presented to the agent in a way that the agent can use it. This is a big breakthrough. And in fact, what we have done, as you know, what Nvidia’s treasure..." ---- From 'NVIDIA' YT channel (link in comment)

Rohan Paul

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Just watched Kai-Fu Lee 's interview on the US-China AI landscape. A few takeaways felt especially useful✌️: 1. The US is currently about 15 months ahead of China in frontier AI models. 2. Top US AI companies are like “geniuses trying to win the Nobel Prize,” while Chinese AI companies are more like “a group of smart kids forming a study group.” They still compete, but open source creates more shared learning. 3. China’s AI companies face a real monetization challenge in enterprise software. Many Chinese companies are less used to annual subscriptions or usage-based pricing, and still tend to think of software as project-based work. 4. For the same product, Western, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian companies may be willing to pay around 8x more than Chinese companies. That helps explain why many Chinese AI companies are expanding overseas. 5. China may produce many breakthrough AI consumer apps, because Chinese companies are especially strong at consumer apps, hardware, robotics, embodied AI, and AI-first devices. 6. The US may continue to lead in frontier models, while China may move faster in turning AI into products people actually use. 7. His advice for young people in the age of AI: you don’t necessarily need to become an engineer first. What matters more is accountability, taste, conviction, courage, and foresight. More👇
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Just watched Kai-Fu Lee 's interview on the US-China AI landscape. A few takeaways felt especially useful✌️: 1. The US is currently about 15 months ahead of China in frontier AI models. 2. Top US AI companies are like “geniuses trying to win the Nobel Prize,” while Chinese AI companies are more like “a group of smart kids forming a study group.” They still compete, but open source creates more shared learning. 3. China’s AI companies face a real monetization challenge in enterprise software. Many Chinese companies are less used to annual subscriptions or usage-based pricing, and still tend to think of software as project-based work. 4. For the same product, Western, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian companies may be willing to pay around 8x more than Chinese companies. That helps explain why many Chinese AI companies are expanding overseas. 5. China may produce many breakthrough AI consumer apps, because Chinese companies are especially strong at consumer apps, hardware, robotics, embodied AI, and AI-first devices. 6. The US may continue to lead in frontier models, while China may move faster in turning AI into products people actually use. 7. His advice for young people in the age of AI: you don’t necessarily need to become an engineer first. What matters more is accountability, taste, conviction, courage, and foresight. More👇

Mia Bao

44,564 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

Mark Cuban just told every software company on Earth they’re already dead. The people inside them are still building roadmaps. Cuban: “Software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Every SaaS company was built on one bet. Software stays rigid. Humans stay adaptable. You learn the tool. You bend to it. You pay for someone else’s version of your solution. AI just inverted that. The tool bends to you or it dies. Cuban: “33 million companies aren’t going to have AI budgets, aren’t going to have AI experts.” 33 million businesses feel something shifting beneath them. None can name it. The distance between what AI can do and what small companies can access is the most mispriced gap in markets today. Not a technology problem. A translation problem. Cuban: “Learn all you can about AI but learn more on how to implement them in companies.” Everyone is racing to build intelligence. Almost nobody is racing to deploy it where the pain is deepest. The person who walks into a 40-person company and rewires their entire operation captures more value than the team that trained the model. Understanding pain is now worth more than building intelligence. Cuban: “Every single job available for kids coming out of school because every single company needs that.” The most important career of the next decade has no title. No degree path. No university knows it needs to exist yet. It belongs to whoever learns two languages fluently. The language of a business that can’t articulate what’s breaking. And the language of an AI that doesn’t know where to aim. 33 million companies. Zero translators. Whoever arrives first doesn’t enter a market. They create one.
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Mark Cuban just told every software company on Earth they’re already dead. The people inside them are still building roadmaps. Cuban: “Software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Every SaaS company was built on one bet. Software stays rigid. Humans stay adaptable. You learn the tool. You bend to it. You pay for someone else’s version of your solution. AI just inverted that. The tool bends to you or it dies. Cuban: “33 million companies aren’t going to have AI budgets, aren’t going to have AI experts.” 33 million businesses feel something shifting beneath them. None can name it. The distance between what AI can do and what small companies can access is the most mispriced gap in markets today. Not a technology problem. A translation problem. Cuban: “Learn all you can about AI but learn more on how to implement them in companies.” Everyone is racing to build intelligence. Almost nobody is racing to deploy it where the pain is deepest. The person who walks into a 40-person company and rewires their entire operation captures more value than the team that trained the model. Understanding pain is now worth more than building intelligence. Cuban: “Every single job available for kids coming out of school because every single company needs that.” The most important career of the next decade has no title. No degree path. No university knows it needs to exist yet. It belongs to whoever learns two languages fluently. The language of a business that can’t articulate what’s breaking. And the language of an AI that doesn’t know where to aim. 33 million companies. Zero translators. Whoever arrives first doesn’t enter a market. They create one.

Dustin

473,911 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

Every company says they have Forward-Deployed Engineers now. ElevenLabs CEO and former Palantir Deployment Strategist Mati Staniszewski gives one of the best explanations of what an FDE is—and says companies are missing the key piece of what actually makes FDEs valuable: “In our case, FDEs are part of the product team. They are not part of the go-to-market team. They are deeply embedded in understanding what the roadmap of the product is.” “You want all the FDEs to actually solve the customer problem and stretch your product in that direction. But the second thing you want them to do is bring any of that knowledge back to the product, so the product becomes better for the next generation of companies building on top of it. I feel like the second part is frequently missed.” “The beauty of that is—everybody benefits because you work with one customer, learn, and you bring that into the product experience. Both of those customers benefited from having their product optimized for better work.” “The domain expertise they have is still theirs. They can win based on their domain expertise. But the product experience of how you build based on that domain expertise can be abstracted, and can be reusable.”
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Every company says they have Forward-Deployed Engineers now. ElevenLabs CEO and former Palantir Deployment Strategist Mati Staniszewski gives one of the best explanations of what an FDE is—and says companies are missing the key piece of what actually makes FDEs valuable: “In our case, FDEs are part of the product team. They are not part of the go-to-market team. They are deeply embedded in understanding what the roadmap of the product is.” “You want all the FDEs to actually solve the customer problem and stretch your product in that direction. But the second thing you want them to do is bring any of that knowledge back to the product, so the product becomes better for the next generation of companies building on top of it. I feel like the second part is frequently missed.” “The beauty of that is—everybody benefits because you work with one customer, learn, and you bring that into the product experience. Both of those customers benefited from having their product optimized for better work.” “The domain expertise they have is still theirs. They can win based on their domain expertise. But the product experience of how you build based on that domain expertise can be abstracted, and can be reusable.”

David Senra

302,101 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce

Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois explains how a mere blip in the Anthropic or OpenAI IPOs would be catastrophic for the venture-funded AI ecosystem: "The most devastating thing to the frothy hype, traction, and funding of AI from VCs would be if Anthropic or OpenAI has a blip in their IPOs." "Do they have to show metrics over the next month to first few quarters that cause people to value either company less than the current belief that they will trade in the trillions? They could have a miss on revenue traction, a miss on margins, something like that." "That would be catastrophic. It would immediately reset virtually all the valuations in the AI world. And probably deprive half the companies that are raising money from access to capital." "I'm not saying that is going to happen, or is likely. And I think if they miss, it would be more on the margin side than on the revenue side." "But if they do, everybody is predicating their new investments in dollars on the idea that you can build a trillion-dollar company within the lifecycle of a venture fund. There are 2 examples, currently, and there are several companies that people believe have the potential to get there." "If that changes, and you cannot predict that more trillion-dollar companies can be created, then the valuations that people are investing at, and the dollars that are being invested, do not make that much sense."
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Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois explains how a mere blip in the Anthropic or OpenAI IPOs would be catastrophic for the venture-funded AI ecosystem: "The most devastating thing to the frothy hype, traction, and funding of AI from VCs would be if Anthropic or OpenAI has a blip in their IPOs." "Do they have to show metrics over the next month to first few quarters that cause people to value either company less than the current belief that they will trade in the trillions? They could have a miss on revenue traction, a miss on margins, something like that." "That would be catastrophic. It would immediately reset virtually all the valuations in the AI world. And probably deprive half the companies that are raising money from access to capital." "I'm not saying that is going to happen, or is likely. And I think if they miss, it would be more on the margin side than on the revenue side." "But if they do, everybody is predicating their new investments in dollars on the idea that you can build a trillion-dollar company within the lifecycle of a venture fund. There are 2 examples, currently, and there are several companies that people believe have the potential to get there." "If that changes, and you cannot predict that more trillion-dollar companies can be created, then the valuations that people are investing at, and the dollars that are being invested, do not make that much sense."

TBPN

78,950 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce

Anish Acharya: We're going to see a "YouTube moment for software": "If you think about YouTube 20 years ago—we had lots of video and lots of television, and it was high production quality, and it wasn't clear that we needed more and 20 years later, YouTube's a $550 billion enterprise that would be one of the biggest companies in the world if it was independent." "I think the same thing is going to happen for software. People want to make software, and for the first time they can—and they can distribute it and they can consume it." "Sometimes it's going to be important software. Sometimes it's going to be totally trivial. It's going to be software for a bachelor party weekend, software for a joke, software for a prompt. We have this sort of seriousness about software that we had about video and television 20 years ago." "Now it's like—I just took a video on my phone. It's going to be like—I just made an app on my phone. Same energy." Anish Acharya on BILLIONS with Guillaume Moubeche
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Anish Acharya: We're going to see a "YouTube moment for software": "If you think about YouTube 20 years ago—we had lots of video and lots of television, and it was high production quality, and it wasn't clear that we needed more and 20 years later, YouTube's a $550 billion enterprise that would be one of the biggest companies in the world if it was independent." "I think the same thing is going to happen for software. People want to make software, and for the first time they can—and they can distribute it and they can consume it." "Sometimes it's going to be important software. Sometimes it's going to be totally trivial. It's going to be software for a bachelor party weekend, software for a joke, software for a prompt. We have this sort of seriousness about software that we had about video and television 20 years ago." "Now it's like—I just took a video on my phone. It's going to be like—I just made an app on my phone. Same energy." Anish Acharya on BILLIONS with Guillaume Moubeche

a16z

103,034 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce