AI, 10 Years To An Overnight Success & The Magic of Zero
There are three kinds of founders when you bring up artificial intelligence (AI).
You are excited, reading all the things and using it for everything. You may even have a new AI startup.
You are terrified of AI and actively avoid using it.
Or, you are somewhere in the middle. You are already using it for a few things, but you are mostly playing ‘wait and see’ as it relates to incorporating AI in a really big way in your company.
If you fall in the third camp, this short SaaS AI guide is for you, which includes a framework for how to think more strategically about where AI fits in.
Here's what we're covering this week:
10 years to an overnight success
The magic of zero
Optimizing CTAs
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