Software vendors will increasingly cut off third-party API access in data wars
Zeb Evans · How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans · Oct 10, 2025 · at 29:09
ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans predicts an escalation in SaaS 'data wars' where major software platforms block competing AI and workflow tools from accessing their data.
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“I think you're going to end up like waking up every day and, you know, I think you'll see another headline of this company cut off this access to this access and you're using, you know, your tool that you thought you were using to control everything connected to it. But that those connections will certainly stop. I think as convergence continues to happen.”
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