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Justin Shum

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

But why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

Well, here's the thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

They grow up into enterprise organizations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

And if they adopt us according to our plan, they'll take us into their organizations as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

So that's the strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

On top of that, they mimic our core customer that we plan to monetize with, which are management consultants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

They do the same thing in terms of analysis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

And they deal with a lot of unstructured data and documents and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

We actually just started writing last week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

So we've been building, our co-founders, my co-founders and I, we've been building across three different continents for the past six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

And before we wrote any line of code, we went through deep discovery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

We went through a dozen different rabbit holes to arrive to this final conclusion where we validated our hypothesis before we started writing and building.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

Unlike my previous startups where we just built and started selling, like I sold packages in my previous startups before we even had a product or service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

So this one was a lot more methodical in our approach.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

Yeah, we were trying to unlock value.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

While building an AI, it's scary because literally every release from OpenAI kills hundreds of startups, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

Every single feature.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

And so we didn't want to build something for the short term.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

And so we really had to understand what value we could offer long-term while thwarting off threats from companies like OpenAI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can this new AI tool grow into their $10m valuation?

Well, you can kind of understand where LLMs are gonna go.