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What Clay Bavor thinks about SaaS

@clay-bavor · 10 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  1. Our readingSoftware used to make you marginally more productive; an agent gets the job done for you, so you are hiring it rather than buying it.

    Their wordsAnd in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 14th of 22 in this recording

    hiring

  3. Our readingNeither seats nor tokens can price an agent, because neither of them measures whether the job got done.

    Their wordsSeat based. Well, what is a seat? That doesn't make any sense. Consumption where it's like is it per message? Is it per token? Is it per conversation? And none of these things actually mapped very well to getting a job done and getting a job done well.

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 15th of 22 in this recording