Amble: AI Onboarding and Templates Accelerated AI Presentation Software Growth
Seema Amble · 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Aren’t in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad's CEO and a16z · Dec 11, 2024 · at 3:06
Seema Amble, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), discusses enterprise AI trends and how AI is streamlining customer onboarding and product adoption.
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“There's a whole set of presentation software, AI-driven presentation software that's been growing really quickly in the last year or two. And this category actually I wouldn't say struggled, but it was growing much more slowly. It was harder to get folks to get used to like an AI generated presentation. Once they built, started building out templates and the onboarding flow via AI themselves, the, that new user behavior was a lot easier to learn.”
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