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Grady: Early SaaS was a business model shift, not a UX revolution
“If you look at the last decade or so of software, the transition has been from on-premise to SaaS or on-premise to cloud, and that's been a wonderfully impactful transition, but at a very fundamental level, it's been a transition in the business model, not a t…”
Soltero: Open-source software cannot be sold via traditional top-down enterprise models
“They were doing a sort of typical top-down sales approach and the type of go to market dynamics usually reserved for the Siebels and you know, oracles of the world, and you couldn't do that then, you can't do it now.”
O'Driscoll: AI Software Automates Actual Work Rather Than Just Updating UIs
“Salesforce was rebuild Siebel in the cloud, and it was fun, and we made a lot of money, but you're right, somewhat boring. What is really exciting now is you're not just talking about rebuild Salesforce exactly the same, but with a slightly modern UI. You are …”