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Amble: Marketing content creation and tracking will be automated within two years
“And then I think in the next year or two, a lot more of this content is going to be generated on a more automated, fast basis. And the like measurement and collection of the of the performance will all be collected and done on an automated basis.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:08 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Amble: Salesforce Headless 360 is merely a rebranding of existing APIs
“I don't, from what I can tell, nothing actually changed. Their three 60 product was the same APIs that had always been exposed, now rebranded as their three 60 product.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 4:00 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
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Amble: Workday limits third-party API access and documentation
“Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually, like, get access to the documentation and work with the, like, and they don't expose all the endpoints.”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 49:36 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
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Amble: A top-20 accounting firm is prepared to spend $500M on software
“One of the firms we talked to, it's a top-twenty firm, they were ready to spend up to five hundred million dollars either building or acquiring software.”
Seema Amble Dec 17, 2024 ▶ 6:31 How AI Will Transform Accounting: A $100B Opportunity Explained
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Amble: Fine-Tuned GPT-4o Reached 90%+ Accuracy vs 20% Base in Accounting
“I met an accounting AI company a couple of weeks ago that had said, They tested GPT-IV-O against their benchmarks, and it was like, 20% accurate. They then tested Claude, and it was like, 50 to 80%, and then a fine-tuned version of GPT-IV-O, they were getting …”
Seema Amble Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 12:56 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
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Amble: B2B companies are increasingly merging sales and marketing functions
“One of the biggest shifts we're seeing in B to B companies is the trend of sales and marketing coming together.”
Seema Amble Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 1:09 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
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Amble: Most a16z SaaS Portfolio Companies Choose Main-Branch Foundation Models
“Making your life easier and getting most of the benefits of AI by staying on the main branch is where we are right now. And so that's like what we're seeing resonating with more of our companies.”
Seema Amble Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 10:28 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
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Amble: AI-First SaaS Startups Are Narrowing to Specific Verticals
“What we are seeing is a lot of companies who are building AI first SaaS applications start to narrow down either on a use case or a market versus being more horizontal.”
Seema Amble Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 16:51 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
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Amble: Many Failing Enterprise AI Use Cases Will Work in One Year
“Again, I check it in a year. I'm sure there'll be many more use cases that weren't working now that aren't working out that will be then, but yeah.”
Seema Amble Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 23:37 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
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Amble: AI will shift marketing roles from doers to reviewers
“The first shift we're going to see is the shift from being the doer. So I'm not writing the email, but I'm reviewing the email. So doer to reviewer.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 4:00 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Amble: SMBs are driving the earliest adoption of AI marketing agents
“The agent is starting to take on more of the end to end tasks, especially where we're seeing this the most is on the SMB side. And why is that? So SMBs typically are spending a lot on marketing agencies because they don't have marketers internally, or they may…”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 6:40 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Amble: AI marketing automation layer will emerge to orchestrate software tools
“There is going to be an automation layer that's built and it's either going to plug into a bunch of individual tools or perhaps one of the tool players will end up taking this on and, you know, allowing the orchestration between between tools or across tools, …”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 9:03 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Seema Amble: Generative AI tools currently accrue value directly to marketers
“I think these tools, especially in the near term are very like creating huge uplifts in terms of like conversion and time for the marketers. And I think the value is really accruing to the marketers for at least for now.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 10:40 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Amble: Notion users are more tech-savvy builders than Salesforce users
“Notion users tend, you know, all things being equal, are more, I'd say, tech-savvy and more agentic as builders”
Seema Amble Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 4:57 Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
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Amble: Intercom charges for AI agent Fin based on resolution
“Intercom has its chat Support, or sorry, it's a support agent that is called Fin. It's actually charging based on resolution.”
Seema Amble Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 25:19 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z
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a16z's Sima: Gusto is valued at nearly $10B with 300,000 businesses
“Gusto is valued at almost ten billion dollars and serves over 300,000 businesses by simplifying payroll, benefits, and HR.”
Seema Amble Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 0:44 How Gusto Used Customer Input to Scale Growth with Tomer London
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Seema Amble: Annual US marketing spend exceeds $500 billion
“And I think, you know, there's well north of like five hundred billion dollars in the US alone spent on marketing, and that number is growing.”
Seema Amble Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 0:53 How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
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Early B2B Fintech Founders Most Frequently Ask About Initial Customer Acquisition
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Launching a New Category with Modern Treasury's Dimitri Dadiomov
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Amble: Early B2B fintech founders most frequently ask about customer acquisition
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta's Jason Gardner
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
B2B FinTech founders' top concern is customer acquisition and trust
“The number one question I get asked by early B to B FinTech founders is, how do I acquire my first set of customers, as well as, how do I get my customers to trust me with their money?”
Seema Amble Nov 14, 2023 ▶ 0:13 Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
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