Shaan Puri: The AI email assistant market will be an absolute bloodbath
Shaan Puri · 6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank · Nov 8, 2024 · at 1:16:49
Sean Puri explains his skepticism about investing in standalone AI email startups like Pathlet during a startup pitch evaluation.
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“I do feel undoubtedly that email inboxes are going to start to have AI in them and the AI is going to help you process, categorize summarize your emails in a way and respond, help you with the responses. The problem is Do I really believe that you are going to be able to get people off of Outlook, off of Gmail, and onto your service? Or in addition, you know, they're also going to be doing that, right? Google, Google's definitely going to be adding AI into this, and so is Superhuman, and so is Microsoft, right? They own OpenAI, basically. And so I do think that this is going to be just an absolute bloodbath category.”
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