Welcome to a new season of this podcast where I speak with Masters of AI, i.e. founders / leaders building AI applications using AI.

Expect a mix of SAAS, prosumer and consumer startup founders and leaders sharing their learning building a growing AI native businesses.

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Vijay Rayapati is a tech entrepreneur who earlier sold Minjar to Nutanix and is now building AtomicWork, an AI-powered ITSM platform.

In this conversation, Vijay and I talk about

• his startup journey
• Finding PMF in AI led world. And how PMF has evolved over the last few years
• Choosing the right problem statements
• Choosing the right target market (hint: GDP matters, but there is a product side to it)
• Vijay's tips to entrepreneurs building global SAAS businesses from India
• Enterprise AI: How are CXOs evaluating AI solutions

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Welcome to one more edition of 2by2 - wherein I attempt to demystify big questions using the power of 2by2.

Today, the big qn is whether your AI tool is a feature or a product.

There are 2 broad parameters to look at when answering this - customer benefit (i.e. value as perceived by your customers) AND integration / implementation effort.

Do listen to this episode and share your feedback. What else would you like me to talk about? Do share.

More: https://sinha.nextbigwhat.com

Founders are often confused whether to bootstrap or raise funding?

First of all, there is no right or wrong answers here.

"What'ever floats your boat" is a generic advice, but there has to be a better framework for founders to make a well-informed decision.

At scale (say $100mn+ revenue or Series D onwards_, startups are all about 2 things

1. Control
   i.e. ability to control your decisions, your destiny, your path. Given the gen AI world we live in where companies are getting disrupted with each and every new model launch, you need to have a lot of control on your decision making. This also helps you move fast, take quick decisions and not be at the mercy of your competition’s agility.

2. Growth
   Of course, nobody wakes up saying ‘I want to build a slow growth business’. We all want high growth business - but here is the reality: growth comes at a cost. And we all have seen what happened to those high-growth businesses of 21,22 (ZIRP era). They don’t even have money to pay salaries to their employees. Founders are left with neither growth nor control of their business.

So what’s the right framework to look at this dilemma? Enters 2 by 2 :)

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