Sramana Mitra: I think the distribution is going to be an interesting point, which is one of the reasons why I find the Agentforce announcement exciting. The same way that a lot of SaaS companies were able to distribute through app exchange, a lot of agent companies will be able to distribute through Agentexchange, and
The people who understand those enterprise systems the best are in the best position to build those agents. Is there going to be a big opportunity to build agents that are from entrepreneurs? How do you think about it?
Sramana Mitra: Yes. In all our discussions last year on AI, human centric AI was front and center. AI is in enterprises, AI is in small businesses, but it’s either a human using AI as whether it’s a co-pilot or an assistant, whatever; but it’s the human making the decisions. It’s the human using the
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. My thesis also is that the defensible businesses are domain knowledge heavy in AI. The layers of abstraction to some extent are already in place, and there’s going to be more. Just to give you a feel for my framework, I look a lot at the parallel with the cloud computing infrastructure
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Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures discuss his firm’s AI investment thesis. KLVIN As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Vinay Kumar Kolusu from Hyderabad, India, pitch KLVIN, an India-facing B2B SaaS play. Prosperity CoPilot Then we had Martin Athanas from Mumbai, India, pitch Prosperity CoPilot,