Fragmented career software leaves room for an all-in-one AI app
Blake Anderson · 24 year old making $1m/month from AI shares 3 startup ideas · Nov 6, 2024 · at 5:43
Blake Anderson, co-founder of consumer AI developer Apex, discusses startup opportunities in unbundling and rebundling career advancement tools for students and job seekers.
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“As we all know, there are a lot of new, very popular Fragmented career advancement tools. By fragmented, what I mean is you have a website that you can go on that gives you an analysis of your resume, and it'll give you all the bullet points about how to improve it. We also have websites where you can take quizzes in terms of, ah, that will give you recommendations of what your future career should be based on your personality. We have people that sell courses about how to apply to different jobs. But I believe that an all in one integrated platform that kind of takes a bunch of these different fragmented tools and puts it into career AI. I think that that would be a pretty amazing application.”
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