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Garg: Dozens of startups are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch
“I think there are dozens of companies that are poised to eat Salesforce's lunch. But those companies, despite the distribution disadvantage, are positioning themselves to do so.”
Garg: Only 1,000 people globally are truly innovating at frontier model layer
“When I say there's a thousand people, those are the people that are really innovating at the model layer.”
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: AI Model Layer Is Not a Winner-Takes-All Market
“So this is by no means, even the model layer is not a winner-takes-all market.”
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.”
Ashu Garg is actively buying Salesforce, Snowflake, and ServiceNow stock
“And so I am bullish that they will also capture some share of this value. And so I, I'm a buyer of Salesforce and I'm a buyer of Salesforce stock. I'm a buyer of Snowflake stock and I'm a buyer of ServiceNow stock.”
Garg: AI is transitioning from assistive co-pilots to human-replacing autonomous agents
“If you step away from the technology, ultimately what is going on is we're seeing the shift from co-pilots which assist a human
To an autonomous agent that for a certain class of tasks can replace a human.”
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: Open-source models trail proprietary SOTA models by only 6-12 months
“I also think that open source has demonstrated that while it can't compete with the SOTA models, it's only six to 12 months away.”
Garg: AI application startups must realize their model vendors are competitors
“Every startup in the AI application space, every, you know, service as software startup has to first and foremost internalize that their vendor is also their competitor. The model provider is both vendor and competitor. And that's a hard place to be. And they …”
Garg: AI startups must build to beat GPT-7, not GPT-5
“If you cannot have a product that can compete with GPT-Five, you're dead on arrival. Because you want to spend the next five years losing money. To the point that you can have a profitable business five years from now, and you'll be competing with GPT-Sev.”
Garg: Big Tech AI team lift-outs bypass 18-month antitrust delays
“So, because of the antitrust issues, companies are choosing to, you know, lift out teams, including the IP. But the bet they're making is the IP is changing so rapidly, you take a licensed copy of the IP, you leave the, you leave a copy behind, And that team, …”
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.”
Garg: Digital twins can answer 20% to 80% of workplace questions
“So depending on the role, depending on the person, maybe it's 20%, maybe it's 80%, but somewhere between 20 and 80% of the questions you have are answerable by a digital twin in that case, because that twin has built an institutional memory of you, the individ…”
Ashu Garg: CIOs migrating ERPs without context graphs are failing their duties
“If you are the CIO organization in a Fortune hundred company, and you are thinking about an SAP or an Oracle migration, well, call one 800 Tessera, because if you are looking to drive a major, you know, system of record migration without exploring What, you kn…”
Garg: Database and analytics vendors cannot capture enterprise decision traces
“A database vendor can't capture them because no, they're not in any one database. An analytics vendor cannot capture them because it's, they capture the outcome, not the why and the how. And the only people who capture the how decisions are made are the orches…”
Garg: Founder intensity and curiosity matter more than prior startup experience
“Certainly I think the value of experience Has diminished in the value of intensity and curiosity has exploded.”
Garg: Bangalore has a shot at matching Silicon Valley in 10–20 years
“Maybe in a decade, maybe in two, I think Bangalore is an interesting ecosystem. I think in a decade or two, I think Bangalore, you know, has a shot at being there.”
Garg: Perplexity is not in the same league to own consumer AI
“I think Perplexity has a shot at that. So I wouldn't rule it out. I think Arvind has done a remarkable job. I think, ah, I am blown away by what he has accomplished, and I think he has, you know, he has put a stake in the ground. I think he has a shot. But to …”
Garg: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI lead the consumer AI battle
“Ah, but really when you think about the players today, I think the three contenders today are really Anthropic, Google, And OpenAI, and I think Microsoft and Meta are sort of fast followers, ah, and Apple is the dark horse.”
Garg: OpenAI has pivoted into a consumer and prosumer applications company
“So, OpenAI has pivoted from being a developer-focused company to being a consumer and prosumer-focused applications company.”
Garg: Six-month-old portfolio startup is about to sign $30M first deal
“I have a startup that's, you know, barely six months off the ground. They're about to sign what might be a thirty million dollar deal.”
Garg: Successful AI founders are more technical than SaaS-era founders
“So, in some ways, the founders today that I see being successful are more technical than the founders in the SaaS way. Which also means that repeat entrepreneurs who grew up in a less technical world are struggling with the technical complexity. They're strugg…”
Ashu Garg: Context graphs serve as an organization's institutional memory
“Think of a context graph as the institutional memory for an organization. At its simplest level, it is an aggregation of the knowledge of why decisions were made, how they were made, who made them. And the why often has to be inferred from the how and the who.…”
Garg: Systems of record capture outcomes rather than decision traces
“Historically, organizations do not have these decision races in a form that can be processed. They have the outcome. So systems of record capture the output of these decision traces.”
Garg: Fully autonomous agent transactions require context graphs
“To get to that, and that might not make sense for everything, but there are many situations where that makes sense. To get to that nirvana, we need context graphs.”
Garg: Context graph winners must deliver value to earn data access
“We believe that the best, the companies that win in the era of context graphs will find a way to deliver enough value that they earn the right to build a context graph.”
Ashu Garg: Context graphs cut finance reconciliation exceptions by up to 80%
“So look, obviously this varies from customer to customer, but the common pattern we're seeing is we're seeing a 30 to 80% reduction in exceptions.”
Ashu Garg: Enterprise users connect AI to emails, not Zoom calls
“Most people give it access to email. They give it access to their Google Docs, or SharePoint, or Box, Dropbox folders. Most people don't want to start out by giving access to all Zoom calls. Or phones.”
Garg: Context in AI is a function of pairwise relationships
“Because context is a function of pairwise relationships. When I ask you a question how things are going, your wife asks you the question how things are going, and your CFO asks you the question how things are going, you have very different answers to the same …”
Ashu Garg: Public SaaS stocks collapsed 30% to 40% in six weeks
“You know, in the last six weeks since we talked about context graphs SaaS stocks have collapsed 30 to 40%.”
Ashu Garg: AI startup Tessera scaled from zero to $25M in bookings
“Tessera won a twenty-five million dollar contract from a Fortune 50 corporation, and they went from zero to twenty-five million dollars in bookings.”
Garg: Superhuman AI requires breaking aggregate tasks into multi-agent systems
“So I think you can have superhuman performance. For specific classes of tasks, but it requires us to break down the aggregate task into smaller tasks, have agents to do smaller tasks.”
Garg: Context graphs are built on multi-system processes, not single-vendor data
“Context graphs are not bound by system constraints. You're not going to build a context graph on top of your Salesforce data. You're going to build a context graph on top of your sales process. And every business process touches dozens of systems in a large co…”
Garg: Context graphs will be 10 to 100x better in three years
“The context graphs of three years of, you know, from now would be 10 to a hundred X better than today's context graphs, because the enabling technology will make them better. And the decision traces you capture will make them better.”
Garg: Enterprise decision traces compound to enrich context graphs
“See, key to the context graph idea is the notion that decision traces, you know, compound. As you capture decision traces, you earn the right to capture more decision traces. And that compounding of decision, of capturing decision traces is what makes for a ri…”
Garg: Decision traces can only be captured in the workflow orchestration layer
“Decision traces can only be captured if you're in the orchestration or you're in the flow of those decisions.”
Garg: Every person will eventually have one or multiple personal AI agents
“First and foremost, the world we're headed to is each one of us will have one or multiple personal agents.”
Garg: Stripe's fraud analytics are designed solely to detect human fraud
“If you look at current payment systems, if you look at Stripe, and all of Stripe's fraud analytics and fraud systems, they're designed to test for a human being, and is there human fraud happening?”
Garg: India's ChatGPT consumption matches or exceeds US usage
“Today, you're seeing that chat GPT consumption in India is actually simultaneously with the U.S. I think there is as much consumption, perhaps more.”
Garg: Relationships matter more in AI because enterprise automation is high-risk
“If anything, relationships matter more today because people are putting more at risk. If you're going to a company and say I'm going to outsource this process for you, that's pretty scary for them too. So if they're going to do something that's scary for them,…”