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Jaeden Schaefer

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AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

So he pointed to the contrast between cursor and cloud code as kind of where things are going.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

He said one owns the developer's workflow, the other just executes the task.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

um which i think is basically shows that increasingly developers are choosing execution over process right like they don't just want you to own the workflow they want you to actually get the thing done which is what cloud code is doing really really well right now it's the number one tool we use at ai box so the shift i think that we're seeing right now is a lot of big implications if agents are doing the work then a lot of the traditional kind of workflow stickiness is becoming a lot less relevant in the past getting humans to operate inside of your software

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

was a pretty powerful moat.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Now, if an agent can perform the task directly, then owning the human interface doesn't actually matter that much, in my opinion.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I think you're looking at a lot of these integrations that, you know, you pay companies like Zapier and Bubble and Make.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

I think a lot of those are losing their edge, right?

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Because as you have things like model context protocol, it's going to make it a lot easier for the AI agents to just go and

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

and link directly to the software.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And so instead of me having to go and set up some sort of integration straight into my, you know, meta ads account that, you know, it's kind of create this automation and I got to go tweak it and it's really complex.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Instead, I could just go to my agent that's running on my computer, my like open claw or whatever, and say like, hey, go to my meta account.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

This is the login.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Go change these things.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Go make these tweaks.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And you don't need this kind of like integration.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

You don't need this Zapier because the agent is just taking over your control of your screen.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

And the integration is just literally...

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

the computer being taken over.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

Abdirahman also added that the workflow automation, a lot of the task coordination tools are becoming a lot less necessary if agents simply execute the tasks themselves.

AI in Business
What VC's Are Looking For in AI Startups Today

A lot of public SaaS companies are already feeling pressure as a lot of these kind of these AI native startups are emerging.