Ries: AI lets non-tech businesses bypass the SaaS deployment era entirely
Eric Ries · The Biggest Startup Opportunities In 2024 | Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) · Dec 14, 2023 · at 12:42
Eric Ries discusses the arbitrage opportunity of acquiring legacy, non-technical small businesses and adding AI functionality.
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“Once you know the technology well enough to be able to predict the effects it will have on a given business, then it's just very clear that we're living in a time of tremendous arbitrage where tech non-enabled businesses can become quickly AI-enabled. Skip, in some cases, skipping right over the SaaS era of deployment because the technology's that good.”
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