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Nair: Near-Zero Software Costs Will Enable Ephemeral Agent-Built Applications
“You will build a software app that you and your wife and your family might use three times, and that's it you'll never use again, because the cost of building software will be so close to zero, which means that the process of building software also will be don…”
Sudheesh Nair: Startup failure rate will worsen beyond 92%
“92% are failing right now, and it is only going to get worse because more companies are getting founded, a rate of change is increasing, and frontier models are coming and just swallowing, and SaaS companies aren't going to lie down and take it, which means th…”
Nair: OpenAI's Frontier framework could wipe out enterprise semantic software
“That Frontier framework is, to me, one of the most exciting framework for the intranet. Because it actually talks about context and semantic layer in a way that if you get it right, it will wipe out a whole suite of products out there, because it is the best a…”
Jindal: Only 1 or 2 top AI application companies will survive
“They may be 20 companies would do well today, but off that maybe one or two will be successful in the long run, because it's very easy to challenge the mode of those companies, right? Because end of the day, their biggest mode is their consumer, right? Who's u…”
Jindal: UI-Based Software Will Likely Be Replaced by Natural Language AI Systems
“In the future, I believe that you are not going to do clicks to get something done. You're just going to ask in a natural language, right? So, which means that like, I think this earlier software companies more than likely is going to get replaced by AI system…”
Agarwal: AI operational spend will surpass traditional cloud DevOps spend
“So will AI spend surpass cloud spend? I a hundred percent believe that, which means that the AI ops spend surpasses DevOps spend. It's bound to happen.”
Agarwal: SaaS will become systems of record while AI agents handle execution
“In the current format, SAS companies will just become systems of records. So you had the database, which got obsolete because of a SAS platform, which is just crud on this database, but interesting crud on this database. Now, SaaS platforms I think are the new…”
Kamath: Future AI will decouple infinite memory from small-model compute
“The way we see the future is you will separate memory from intelligence. So the memory will be captured by infinite layers and the intelligence will be captured by finite layers of, you know, intelligence and that small model that has those finite layers that …”
Kamath: Voice AI will diverge and is definitely not winner-takes-all
“I think the markets will diverge at some point of time. Like so for example, 11 is sort of doubling down on the content space but the real time space, like mimicking how humans do conversations is, it's like a very different problem than mimicking how movies a…”
Kamath: Smallest AI has enough capital to reach $100M ARR
“Having said that, I still think the capital we have right now is enough to build a hundred million ARR company.”
Garg: Winning AI startups will build moats through context graphs
“Our belief is that the most successful AI startups of the future will be those that are able to build a moat by building a unique context graph.”
Garg: Systems of record will capture a declining share of tech value
“Existing systems of record are not the natural owners of the context graph, and so they will capture a declining share of the value that's created by technology.”
Ashu Garg: Over 100 winners will capture the $1T context graph market
“So I think there will be the trillion dollar plus opportunity will get captured by a hundred plus winners in context graphs.”
Ashu Garg: Context graph adoption will dictate S&P 500 winners by 2030
“I believe that four years from now, The winners and losers on the SNP or the Nifty in India, the winners and losers will be separated by their ability to embrace context graphs.”
Garg: Every organization will operate multiple context graphs, not one
“First and foremost, every organization will have multiple Context Graphs. There is no one world model or one world context graph in any organization.”
Garg: Every Global 2000 enterprise will build in-house context graphs
“And every global 2000 company will build many context graphs in house.”
Kohli: AI digital workers will drive SaaS adoption rather than replace SaaS
“So I feel the next decade is not about replacing SaaS, which is what, you know, it's actually using SaaS more, right? How do you actually use SaaS to deliver that promise that a SaaS provider will continue to release new feature functionality. It's get, it's g…”
Padval predicts Databricks and Stripe will IPO in 9 to 12 months
“And so they will go public in the next nine to 12 months, I think.”
Padval: US-India cross-border startup ecosystem could grow 100x in 15 years
“So I'm very optimistic That India is falling very fast and could be a hundred X of the companies over next 10 to 15 years just like Israel did.”
MacInnis: Data-owning software platforms will capture most AI value by 2031
“And I think in the next five years, a lot of the value of AI is going to be most apparent and captured by the businesses that have the underlying data and tooling to do quote unquote deterministic things or perform tasks in the software world”
MacInnis: Most New AI Startups Will Fail Due to Platform Data Taxes
“I am skeptical as to the survivor, the survival rate of many of the AI companies that I see starting today because they're going to perpetually drink their data through a straw from other systems. And those other systems are never, ever, ever going to let othe…”
Rekhi predicts India will economically overtake China within 50 years
“I see, 50 years from now, we are, we will definitely overtake China. We will definitely overtake China.”
Rekhi predicts China could overtake the US economically by 2035
“China will overtake America by 2035. Yeah. If they turn, transhold, you know, may or may not happen, but if they turn, transhold, you know, China will be better than U.S.”
Rekhi predicts India will be the biggest global winner in AI
“I think India will be the biggest winner in AI. India will be the biggest winner. For the same reasons, India was a very big winner in IT.”
Zuora CIO: Number of SaaS apps will decrease as agents proliferate
“Because the number of SaaS apps will go down. The number of agents will go up.”
Ghosh: AI-Enabled Services Will Become Massive Dividend Businesses
“Make no mistake, these are going to be massive dividend earning businesses, cash flow businesses, and the margins might expand dramatically.”
Ghosh: IT Services Will Shift From Time-and-Materials to Outcome-Based Pricing
“I think, today, a lot of the economic model is time and materials. It is going to go towards outcome-based pricing.”
Dash: OpenAI and Anthropic will stop hosting model launch parties by 2028
“Do we think in three years, OpenAI and Anthropic are going to keep doing launch parties for each model? No, at that point, it's just going to be a product release, right? And you're not going to see behind the scenes which model is it five, is it 15, is it 25,…”
Dash: Vertical AI will create $10B ARR companies in 10-15 years
“I'm pretty sure we're going to see five to ten billion dollar ARR companies in healthcare, education, defense, and retail. In the next 10 to 15 years that are not going to be head-on competing with the same companies that are competing code generation.”
Dash: AI is moving too fast and a market correction is near
“What is inevitable though, if you look at that six year period between the Netscape IPO and the downturn, and you say everything's happening at twice the speed, we're probably pretty close to being due for an AI correction.”
Dash: Most Gen 1.0 AI startups will not reach $10B valuations
“I am pretty convinced that a lot of the gen one dot O companies won't get there. They won't become the ten billion dollar plus outcomes.”
Dash: 2025 VC cohort will see overinflated entry valuations like 2021
“The 2021 cohort, The entry prices for every venture campus, almost by definition, was overinflated, right? I think the twenty-twenty-five cohort's gonna have some of that too, because you're seeing a lot of the early markups ratchet up people's enthusiasm, the…”
Poddar: Gen Z will drive a completely new paradigm in e-commerce
“In fact, one hypothesis I have, ah, which might be counter-intuitive today, is that all the commerce companies have been built for people of our age. Ah, but people 15 years younger to us, 20 years younger to us, don't think like we do. They need something dif…”
Poddar predicts India will create 40 to 50 decacorns in 10-15 years
“I would be surprised if in the next 10 years we don't have 40, 50 more decacons being created. That's a large number. It will happen. And maybe not any, maybe 15 years, but it will happen.”
Bajaria: Enterprise Pricing Will Shift From SaaS to Service-as-a-Software
“We are so used to software as a service, and the reason it was you're selling to humans. It is per user pricing. Yeah, it is platform pricing, right? That was the thing that we were used to. I think it's going to shift to service as a software. Now you figure …”
Toshniwal: Agentic AI will consolidate five-person knowledge workflows down to two roles
“I believe that a big chunk of that work, there will be, let's say, 50 to 60% is done by agentic system. And let's say there are five jobs involved. Instead of five, they will all merge to maybe two jobs.”
Toshniwal: OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually cannibalize coding agents like Cursor
“If you don't create enough of a deep expertise in a certain area, you know, ChatGPT, Anthropic, they are going to cut into you, which you are seeing probably with coding agents, you know, Windsurf and Cursor. Clearly they have grown very fast, but I expect Cha…”
Sharma: AI Agents Will Soon Obsolete B2B SaaS Website Buying
“I think all that is going to be toasted very very much in the next few years where how people would be consuming and discovering would be very different, and probably they might not even come to your websites either. They'll just discover you through these int…”
Garg: Zero-cost AI agent activity will force a reinvention of the internet
“In a world where the cost of the activity comes to close to zero, because an agent is doing the activity, the infrastructure to enable the activity will all have to change. So I think that's what's underway today. And that is going to cause us to reinvent the …”
Garg: AI will see a decade of internet progress in five years
“I anticipate that over the next five years, we will see the same level of progress that we saw over a decade in the internet.”
Garg: Databricks will be a trillion-dollar company one day
“You know, I think Databricks will be a trillion dollar company one day.”
Garg: More decacorns will be created in next decade than prior decade
“I think many more Decacorns will get created over the next decade than over the last decade.”
Darisi predicts future SaaS startups hit $100M ARR with 100-200 people
“I strongly believe at this point of time, my engineering team even won't be hundred people. So that will be very strong. I mean, view I have it in the size of the team who can able to deliver high value companies will be way, way smaller, right? So like you wi…”
Darisi: 50,000 companies will reach $100M revenue in the AI era
“The market is going to increase. For one reason, now you can see it's not G-Twenty K, it will be G-Fifty K companies who can able to do hundred million dollars of revenue because the build is actually becoming shorter and the technology is becoming more widely…”
Ganesan: AI will eliminate 80% of contact center seats in 3-5 years
“So broadly, I think the total number of contact center seats will come down. My estimation is that it will come down by about 80% over the course of three to five years. By the way, timeframes are actually anybody's guess. As you know, in AI, things are changi…”
Ganesan: Contact centers will never reach 100% AI automation
“But some of these older processes, I don't ever think they will become hundred percent replaced by AI. You will have people who will be needed for complicated questions, for overseeing the bots, for teaching the bots, for compliance purposes sometimes to take …”
Ganesan: US AI firms will ignore cost reduction and chase AGI instead
“Even at the current inference costs I think that the savings in the west is so high that there will be, there is actually no motivation for American companies to further reduce inference costs going forward. So I think they're going to just forget about this c…”