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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Naganand Doraswamy, Managing Partner and Founder at Ideaspring Capital. We discussed how he is thinking about investing in AI.
There’s a lot of confusion around AI right now. The hype is astronomical. Amidst this noisy environment, we’re trying to bring you some signal, some wisdom.
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Accurate estimation of Total Available Market (TAM) is an essential component of a high velocity startup.
I see a chronic overestimation of TAM in my work with startups.
>>>In 2015, Elon Musk was a key founding member of the OpenAI non-profit entity. But over the course of time, due to disagreements between the rest of the team, he left OpenAI. Last summer, he announced plans to release his own AI-player called xAI.
>>>Sramana Mitra: How did you engineer your go-to-market organization to sell large deals to enterprises?
Josh Jones: We sell all the way down to a company hiring a single person. In fact, in our base level offering, you can get free tests. You start paying when you need larger volume and a single sign-on. A lot of our customers will do custom tests that are built to their systems or their specs.
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Sramana Mitra: So who were these corporate customers? The corporate customers were not for this hiring interviewing tool. Then, you were selling something else besides this product, right?
Josh Jones: Yes, we had a number of customers that we talked to that expressed interest. The first interesting customer was one of the largest consulting firms in the world. We pitched this product to them and asked for their feedback. We said we’ll continue to build and adapt this to their needs.
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