Goldstein: Core enterprise workflow tools must be rebuilt every 5-10 years
Brett Goldstein · SaaS apps that will print profits · Jul 1, 2024 · at 46:13
Brett Goldstein, former product manager at Clearbit, shares his framework for building venture-scale software startups by modernizing legacy enterprise workflows.
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“All these like core workflow tools, Need to get rebuilt every five to 10 years. Why is that? Because the technology gets better, right? People all want, people always want the same thing. They want it to be beautiful. They want it to look like the tools that they use with their consumer products. They want it to have the latest and greatest technology and all that stuff. And the reality is incumbents are never going to be able to adapt quickly to these changes and stuff.”
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