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Flanagan: The AI platform shift favors incumbents over standalone point solutions
“And we've seen like AI may be one of the few platform shifts that actually skews towards the monopolies and conglomerates versus like these individual Companies who just get sucked up and there are features of these existing platforms that get kind of skews to…”
Flanagan: AI will be a growth tailwind for 12 to 18 months
“There may be like AI is somewhat of a tailwind for like maybe 12 months or 18 months for the best people. And then who knows after that, maybe a headwind across everything.”
Flanagan: AI natural language interfaces will enable universal product-led growth
“And like AI is a phenomenal unlock for product-led growth because product-led growth will get naturally built into every single product because every single product will have a natural language interface. And so like you will actually be able to onboard the pr…”
Flanagan: Late-stage marketing will shift from domain specialists to technical generalists
“Marketing, I think might move from like more of a Channel domain expertise to more a generalist. Like we have generalists in early startups. I think that will actually be true of late stage companies because these generalists will be able to stitch together li…”
Flanagan: AI will shift marketing back to unmeasurable, indirect channels
“If you look at where I think things will go with the evolution of AI, people will want to talk to people, so like community becomes much more important, referral becomes much more important, where the mouth becomes much more important. All of these things are …”
Flanagan: Over-indexing on marketing metrics destroys creativity
“Cause like, cause I think the over index of measurements forces everyone into the middle and everything becomes like mundane and lacks creativity.”