AI in Action: Lessons from the Frontlines with Insight Partners
“Curation, design and taste still matters. I don’t think just because you can generate something everybody will like it. Everybody can take really good photos now with their iPhone, but I’m still baffled when somebody who’s a really good photographer takes a photo with an iPhone.”
On May 21st, Enrich co-hosted a panel with the amazing team at Insight Partners on AI in Action: Lessons from the Frontlines featuring Kaj van de Loo (Advisor, former CPTO at UserTesting) and Ganesh Bell (Managing Director at Insight Partners), moderated by Rachel Weston Rowell (SVP, R&D CoE at Insight Partners). We were joined by Enrich members, executives from Insight’s portfolio, and select guests for an insightful and wide-ranging discussion on what it takes to build and scale with AI.
If you’d been there, here’s what you’d still be thinking about today:
Even though it's much easier to build, moats are still possible. People will pay for integration, customers will pay for trust, customers will pay for great user experiences, enterprises will pay for help alleviating tech debt and migrating to more modern solutions. Curation matters, design matters, and taste matters.
There's still loads of opportunity to build something that becomes an integral part of the new stack. Foundational models alone are not enough, there's a lot of scaffolding that hasn’t been built. We still don't know what the dominant programming model will look like - the stack is still forming. (Ganesh wrote about this here). Everything that's built over the last three decades can now be fundamentally re-imagined and re-invented.
Use AI tools to accelerate your roadmap and timelines (and unlock productivity gains). Ganesh gave the example of a portfolio company that was building features to unlock a new ICP: they were able to execute the rollout in 20 days by utilizing Cursor. Plus, “I generally believe that there is a good 10% productivity gain if you just roll out Chatgpt and get people to go use it just across activities: meetings, responding to email, summarizing something,” he shared.
We also jotted down some notes on AI’s biggest failures, how investors are thinking about how startup economics have shifted, and identifying opportunities where you have a disruption opportunity. To get access to the rest of our notes, including the full Q&A…join Enrich!
