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Ben Horowitz

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The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Now, I think that's kind of true for... I mean, if you look at OpenAI...

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

they weren't the only ones trying to do AI, right?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like Google, it was assumed like Google was just going to own AI.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

It was panicking everybody, and that's why Elon, by the way, co-founded it with Sam.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And Elon's still mad about what Sam did with it, but that's a different, longer story.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

But

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

you know, is one of those things, well, we need an AI, we need an alternative.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

The world needs this alternative to Google.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And, you know, that becomes a really, really good idea.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

So anything, and look, the world, the world is changing so fast that the needs are going to, the new needs are going to multiply.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

There's going to be many, many, many things that need to be done.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I mean, if you look at,

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I think, you know, kind of the old, nobody, the one thing that's interesting about the SaaSpocalypse is it's definitely true that like the barrier to entry on like building software and user interfaces is getting much smaller, but

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

By the same token, like, kind of the most boring thing in the world is to just, like, rebuild Salesforce.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Like, you know, like, Salesforce at a half the cost or a quarter of the cost isn't nearly as interesting as, like,

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

what do you really want for your sales organization?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

Because it's not that.

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

I mean, I don't think, you know, and then the question is, can you build it before they can?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

But do you really want your salespeople like entering data into like a crap user interface?

The a16z Show
Ben Horowitz on Venture Capital and AI

And then, you know, most of the things that they work on aren't captured in the system and this and that and the other.