Issues with AI Startups + Cash Burn with Casber Wang, Partner at Sapphire Ventures

In this episode of the SaaS Revolution Show our host Alex Theuma is joined by Casber Wang, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, who shares the issues with AI startups and cash burn.

"Let's just say we intentionally freeze the progress of technology. There's no ChatGPT five, there's no GPT six. It's only what we have today; GPT four and some of the other, call it 3.5. I believe the next five years we can just build applications on those existing technologies without underlying technological progress. So that's how much progress we made from the starting point. So to me it's less so 'why haven't we seen much progress yet', it's just all the systems take a little bit more time, right? People get used to a new thing and that just takes more time than folks had expected, just given how much attention there is around this topic."

Casber shares:
What he's looking for in companies that Sapphire invests in
Why he favours founders who constantly think about talent valuation; from tracking talent to their talent bench
Why building a great software standalone is rarely enough - you need to be backwardly compatible with all the other tools on the stack and nail distribution
The watershed moment in AI and why its garnered so much attention from founders and media
Why specific fields like engineering are seeing a more accentuated economic impact from AI
The five or six prime investment areas where investors spend a lot of time making real bets on
and more.

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