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Rob Walling

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Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

I mean, I know right now it's like SaaS and we're B2B SaaS, but let's say that agents became the new thing to subscribe to.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

And that in fact, agents had built in databases and business logic and all this stuff.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

And

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

why wouldn't we just start investing in them?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

Why wouldn't I create startups for the rest of us, content for them?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

Why wouldn't my next book be called The Agentic Playbook by Rob Wallet?

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

These are the same thing.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

It's just software by a different name.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

SaaS used to be downloadable.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

It wasn't SaaS then, but it was downloadable.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

Then they were called application service providers.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

ASPs was the name for SaaS before SaaS.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

And then it was like cloud software became a thing for a while.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

And I think only like super enterprise, like Fortune 500s call it that now.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

It's just something by a different name.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

So let's just, I get it's a headline and I want to get clicks on social media or on YouTube or whatever.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

But like, if you are really stuck in SaaS, now, you know, maybe the reason that these like HubSpot or whatever, people think they're going down is that they can't be agile enough.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

They can't roll with this.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

They're not going to implement AI and some upstart is going to come in and uproot them.

Startups For the Rest of Us
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw

But to your point, if HubSpot just implements the AI in their model, or in their app, they're going to do okay.