generative AI

10 statements across 7 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 9, 2023 by Spencer Kimball · across every show →

Everything said about generative AI, oldest first

Aug 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
Generative AI startups are currently pushed into Series A rounds too quickly
“These days, I think if you're doing something in generative AI, you're probably gonna get shuttled into doing a series A, and that might not always be appropriate.”
Spencer Kimball Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 5:04 Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
Sep 20, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
D'Onofrio: 55% of Cloud 100 launched Generative AI features within months
“In the past eight months alone, 55% of cloud 100 companies have launched a generative AI product or feature.”
Mary D'Onofrio Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 20:10 State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners
Nov 10, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Belsky: AI productivity gains will increase creative hiring, not decrease it
“And I believe that actually, when you get more ingenuity per person that you employ, the people on your creative team, when you get more possibility from each of them, you're gonna actually want to hire more of them. Look no further than engineers. Engineers h…”
Scott Belsky Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 13:03 The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky
Nov 10, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Belsky: Generative AI is eliminating mechanical labor in professional workflows
“And then you look at the impact of something like generative AI, and you're realizing that the work part of workflow is being reduced, you know, and in some cases even eliminated.”
Scott Belsky Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 3:26 The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky
Nov 10, 2023 positive
Insight
Belsky: Generative AI lowers creative skill floors while raising output ceilings
“It is lowering the bar for the minimum skills required to get into this box, which is a lot of new people coming into the funnel, right, for any creative product, and it's also raising the ceiling, right, of what's possible within the given time that you actua…”
Scott Belsky Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 14:57 The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky
Nov 10, 2023 positive
Insight
Belsky: Generative AI restores adult creative confidence by removing skill barriers
“The ability to take something that's in your mind's eye and instantly generate imagery without any skills required actually starts to restore some of that creative confidence later in life.”
Scott Belsky Nov 10, 2023 ▶ 6:19 The 5 Ways AI Will Transform Creativity with Adobe CSO & EVP Scott Belsky
Mar 1, 2024 positive
Insight
Fonseca: Only distribution, data, and workflows create GenAI moats
“But now TJ and I are pretty sure that only three things matter, and it's whether you can distribute, so it's distribution, it's your data, and it's the workflows. Only these three things matter.”
Lucy Fonseca Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 19:57 6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
Jun 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Bendov: Generative AI operates as System 1 thinking and is not smart
“Actually, the one thing most people don't understand is actually, it's not very smart. It's, if you've read kind of book like system one syncing system, Two thinking, right? So this is like AI generated value system one thinking, right? It's not, it doesn't re…”
Amit Bendov Jun 13, 2024 ▶ 9:49 The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov
Nov 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Persson: Generative AI more than doubles meeting booking rates for SDRs
“So we're seeing more than double the meeting rates for those teams who've been using generative AI for their messages and their emails and everything.”
Denise Persson Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 21:01 The Top Marketing Strategies for AI-Driven Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta
May 2, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Benioff: Most Enterprise Generative AI Deployments Have Failed Over Four Years
“For the vast majority of companies who have been playing around with these models and tools over the last, call it three years or four years of generative AI, they've mostly failed. You don't have that many great stories of how AI has transformed these compani…”
Marc Benioff May 2, 2025 ▶ 28:38 AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, Co-Founder and Chair
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