Building a Venture Scale Enterprise AI Company from Spain: David Villalon, CEO of Maisa (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about the sentiment in European enterprises right now regarding AI adoption. You’re succeeding in driving adoption inside European enterprises, which is great. What’s going on?

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Building a Venture Scale Enterprise AI Company from Spain: David Villalon, CEO of Maisa (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What I like about your pricing model is that it aligns with the ongoing debate between subscription, value-based, and usage-based pricing. Subscription pricing remains the most attractive model in our industry. If you can make it work without breaking your unit economics, it’s the most desirable for everyone — enterprises, buyers, startups, and even analysts.

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Building a Venture Scale Enterprise AI Company from Spain: David Villalon, CEO of Maisa (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There’s no need to open anything to everyone. I think it’s very good to stay focused, especially because your strategy is a land-and-expand strategy. You get in through finance, do one use case, then ten, then a hundred. You want a set of large customers where you can expand and make each customer a multimillion-dollar deal. That’s really the kind of business you want to build.

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Building a Venture Scale Enterprise AI Company from Spain: David Villalon, CEO of Maisa (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s stay with the journey. Let me first focus on the journey, then we’ll draw extrapolations and big conclusions. You identified a use case in invoice processing that took advantage of your product’s functionality, allowing a business user to use your product to make this happen. Did you close that deal?

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