Wang: AI in 2025 is earlier in evolution than early-2010s mobile
Kevin Wang · Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition · Feb 6, 2025 · at 36:49
Kevin Wang, Chief Product Officer at Braze, compares current market uncertainty in AI to the early platform shifts in mobile messaging infrastructure.
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“I think there's some interesting parallels, say, to where like AI is today, where I think that AI is probably a few quarters earlier than that, and people still don't know what's, what's going to happen, and there's a lot more change going on, so it's probably a little bit harder to predict at this moment in time”
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