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Daniel Khachab

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
597 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

So how do you QA that? Every job will significantly change. And even internal facing ones. If I work in HR today, and many of the things I spend a lot of time with will just be done in seconds, then how do I stay on top of things? How do I not become obsolete in the future? It's like every single job will change.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

So how do you QA that? Every job will significantly change. And even internal facing ones. If I work in HR today, and many of the things I spend a lot of time with will just be done in seconds, then how do I stay on top of things? How do I not become obsolete in the future? It's like every single job will change.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

So how do you QA that? Every job will significantly change. And even internal facing ones. If I work in HR today, and many of the things I spend a lot of time with will just be done in seconds, then how do I stay on top of things? How do I not become obsolete in the future? It's like every single job will change.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

A hundred percent. I think SaaS is that. I call it agentification of SaaS. In some industries, it might happen sooner and in some later. But naturally, why do we have user interfaces? So I like kind of the HR example because I still remember before all of these great HR tools came out, we were managing all of HR on Excel sheets. Not Google Sheets, but Excel Sheets.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

A hundred percent. I think SaaS is that. I call it agentification of SaaS. In some industries, it might happen sooner and in some later. But naturally, why do we have user interfaces? So I like kind of the HR example because I still remember before all of these great HR tools came out, we were managing all of HR on Excel sheets. Not Google Sheets, but Excel Sheets.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

A hundred percent. I think SaaS is that. I call it agentification of SaaS. In some industries, it might happen sooner and in some later. But naturally, why do we have user interfaces? So I like kind of the HR example because I still remember before all of these great HR tools came out, we were managing all of HR on Excel sheets. Not Google Sheets, but Excel Sheets.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

And there was kind of every single employee and when they joined and how many holidays they took and what they earned and yada, yada, yada. And then these great tools came up which make the job much easier. But you still need to learn how to use that software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

And there was kind of every single employee and when they joined and how many holidays they took and what they earned and yada, yada, yada. And then these great tools came up which make the job much easier. But you still need to learn how to use that software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

And there was kind of every single employee and when they joined and how many holidays they took and what they earned and yada, yada, yada. And then these great tools came up which make the job much easier. But you still need to learn how to use that software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Whereas in the future, we're just going to prompt that you don't need to learn anything because you communicate with that machine like you communicate with a human in voice, in written form, in many different things. And so it's just the adoption curve will just be faster because there's nothing to learn.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Whereas in the future, we're just going to prompt that you don't need to learn anything because you communicate with that machine like you communicate with a human in voice, in written form, in many different things. And so it's just the adoption curve will just be faster because there's nothing to learn.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Whereas in the future, we're just going to prompt that you don't need to learn anything because you communicate with that machine like you communicate with a human in voice, in written form, in many different things. And so it's just the adoption curve will just be faster because there's nothing to learn.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

It could also be that kind of in that example, Salesforce should be the application layer itself. There should not be a layer above Salesforce. It should be the application layer. And what's underlying might just be a database. Sales people hate Salesforce. Like, go on there, update every single lead. Oh, I spoke to that person. Upload the presentation that you have done. Change the lead status.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

It could also be that kind of in that example, Salesforce should be the application layer itself. There should not be a layer above Salesforce. It should be the application layer. And what's underlying might just be a database. Sales people hate Salesforce. Like, go on there, update every single lead. Oh, I spoke to that person. Upload the presentation that you have done. Change the lead status.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

It could also be that kind of in that example, Salesforce should be the application layer itself. There should not be a layer above Salesforce. It should be the application layer. And what's underlying might just be a database. Sales people hate Salesforce. Like, go on there, update every single lead. Oh, I spoke to that person. Upload the presentation that you have done. Change the lead status.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Who did I talk to? What are the points of contact? Where it's like, okay, here are my notes that I took anyways. Do the rest. And you can imagine if you ask a sales rep, hey, you have two options. Fill the form, copy-paste your notes. Like, what are they going to choose? And which tool is going to find more adoption? And which tool makes your sales rep more efficient?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Who did I talk to? What are the points of contact? Where it's like, okay, here are my notes that I took anyways. Do the rest. And you can imagine if you ask a sales rep, hey, you have two options. Fill the form, copy-paste your notes. Like, what are they going to choose? And which tool is going to find more adoption? And which tool makes your sales rep more efficient?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

Who did I talk to? What are the points of contact? Where it's like, okay, here are my notes that I took anyways. Do the rest. And you can imagine if you ask a sales rep, hey, you have two options. Fill the form, copy-paste your notes. Like, what are they going to choose? And which tool is going to find more adoption? And which tool makes your sales rep more efficient?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

So this is where I disagree. I think it's the other way around. So I think AI is the perfect technology for traditional industries. Why? Because the problem in adoption is not that they think, oh, digital is unimportant. The problem in adoption is like, I need to learn something new. I have done this forever. I don't want to change. I'm going to need training. My people are not ready for it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why SaaS is Dead | Why AI First Companies Will Win | We are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent | Why Europe is F******* and We Need to Stop Whining with Daniel Khachab, Co-Founder @ Choco

So this is where I disagree. I think it's the other way around. So I think AI is the perfect technology for traditional industries. Why? Because the problem in adoption is not that they think, oh, digital is unimportant. The problem in adoption is like, I need to learn something new. I have done this forever. I don't want to change. I'm going to need training. My people are not ready for it.