Reddy: Enterprise Self-Serve SaaS Is A Myth; Executives Delegate To Agencies
Aneesh Reddy · How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy · Apr 23, 2026 · at 26:58
Aneesh Reddy, founder of Capillary Technologies, explains why enterprise software UI adoption fails at large organizations compared to emerging natural-language AI interfaces.
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“What happens in large enterprises is self-serve is a little bit of a myth. Because no senior guy in a large enterprise No one wants to sit in a two hour training and learn a UI. So you, unfortunately, you get delegated out to an agency or to a, you know, a system integrator or someone using your software on their behalf.”
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