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Lemkin: Fire Any Executive Who Is Not Deeply Curious About AI by July
“If anyone on your executive team, or honestly, I know this is tough love, anyone on your team that by June, is not deeply curious, like is not pretending to use chat GPT once a week to get recipes... By June, if not, if July won, I would like just start taking…”
Cabane: Marketing is splitting into human-touch events and AI agent optimization
“There's really two broad categories, things that are AI proof, right? The AI resilience. So that's going to be like social proof and influencers is going to be like some of the UGC stuff. A lot of that, the webinars, the in-person, the events, the dinners, all…”
Bendov: Traditional software user interfaces will disappear and be replaced by speech
“If I'm right, it's going away because I'm gonna say it's all going to be like speech. I'm just going to talk. We're going to have a conversation. The apps are going to run in the background and AI will orchestrate. You can see somebody like Microsoft pilot. Th…”
O'Driscoll: 10% of Scale's Pre-GPT Portfolio Was DOA After ChatGPT
“We did a lot of pre-AI, pre-GPT AI investing, and about 10% of our portfolio was Lilly DOA, When ChatGPT comes out, because they'd solved an AI problem that was just so much easier to solve with ChatGPT that just wasn't fixable.”
Maggie Hott: Never do software pilots without direct executive training participation
“You should not be doing a pilot unless you have that executive buy-in and sign off. In our case, we make sure that executives are sitting through a training Of ChatGPT, otherwise we're not doing a pilot. They have to be involved in it.”
ChatGPT receives hundreds of millions of healthcare queries every week
“When we look at the queries that come into ChatGPT, we get hundreds of millions of healthcare queries every single week.”
Lemkin: ChatGPT Benefits High-Authority Sites That Rank Lower in Google
“Actually, ChatGPT and friends benefit you if you have high authority, but you're lower, lower in Google because they don't care. They're just looking for the best piece of content to answer a question.”
Foster: 'AI-first' executive mandates cause chaos without function-by-function fluency baselines
“You get the CEO memo, like we're an AI first company, right? Which you need to do that step is an important step. But I talked to a lot of people who that's the only step they do. And then it's just like chaos inside the organization being like, I don't know w…”
Lemkin: Reskilling marketing talent into AI natives is difficult
“I think reskilling is tough. I just showing up with a recipe that you got on ChatGPT to your marketing team doesn't count as being an AI native.”
Young: Jasper was the first true application built on an LLM
“In 2019, when the company launched, I think that was a little bit true. We were the first re true application built on top of an LLM we launched before chat GPT.”
Lemkin: Outsourcing content to agencies recycling AI text never works
“Instead of writing great content for SEO, you outsource it to some crappy agency that recycles chat, TBD content. You know how often that works? Nunts. None. None.”
LaRoute: I have stealth churned off ChatGPT since December
“I hate to say that I've stealth churned off ChatGPT, but I literally just looked. I haven't used it since December.”
Lemkin: Reeve.art is likely much better than ChatGPT for B2B
“I think for B to B use cases for real business stuff, the 95% chance is going to be much better than what you get out of chat.”
Ramaswamy: Snowflake is building deep research AI for all enterprise data
“That's kind of where Snowflake is headed, which is all of your enterprise data, but now the intelligence of something like ChatGPT deep research with access to every single data set that you have.”
Tunguz: AI for sales lead analysis works accurately 80% to 85% of the time
“But if I use ChatGPT or OpenAI or a call recording software to determine what's going on with a lead or customer prospect, state-of-the-art says it'll work somewhere between 80 to 85% of the time.”
Tigani: AI will require distinct tooling for developers, analysts, and data scientists
“Everybody uses ChatGPT in a different way, so the developer's gonna use it in a different way than an analyst is gonna use it, and which is different than a data scientist, and I think, yeah, there's gonna have to be different, different tooling for each one o…”
Hott: OpenAI is building a self-serve ChatGPT version for SMBs
“The other thing that we are also building right now, which is really exciting is a business version. So more of a self-serve version for SMBs.”
Lemkin: SaaStr gets 800k blog readers, 5k to 6k from ChatGPT
“We get about. 800,000 readers of our blog. We get other folks will watch this folks consume our content on X and LinkedIn. We get an 800,000 of our classic blog. Only five or 6000 are from chat GBT, but that's not nothing.”
Adams: Intercom bet the company on AI two weeks after ChatGPT launched
“So we bet the entire company on AI. We bet the entire company. It was a risky thing to do. We ripped up our strategy. We ripped up our roadmap. We made these decisions in a very small number of days. Like you're talking once, two weeks after ChatGPT.”
Hott: OpenAI scaled from ~200 to ~1,000 employees post-ChatGPT launch
“We were about 202 150 people, and we had reached a pivotal moment. We had to scale quickly. We had to end the year at somewhere close to a thousand people.”
Norton: AI-transcribed verbal notes generate enablement content 2x to 4x faster
“You'll have to do a cleanup, but I can, I could produce content at probably like two to four X the speed doing this.”
G2 Plans Shift Toward ChatGPT-Style Personalized Software Recommendations
“Ultimately for us, we want to make it a more Google-like experience, and shame on me saying what everyone's been talking about the last couple of months, chat GPT type experience, where you're really looking at
What is best for me?”