Howie Liu: Enterprises Are Nowhere Near Mass AI Deployment Yet
Howie Liu · Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 25, 2023 · at 39:24
Howie Liu is the founder and CEO of Airtable. Speaking on enterprise sales in late 2023, he evaluates whether buyers are ready for widespread AI adoption.
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“So we are nowhere near, in my opinion, the tornado of every enterprise just knows they want AI in, in in heaps and is very ready to go and grow their own resources at deploying AI into every quarter of the company, right? Maybe that'll happen. Maybe the train will arrive at some point, but it's my sense from my conversations that we're not close to that yet.”
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