.@lqiao, CEO of Fireworks, said to me "finding leaders who have the right balance of Pattern Matching and Path Finding has been particularly difficult." I thought it was an excellent articulation of the difficulty of leading in AI natives. And related to @rabois' post on figuring out the new org in the face of AI.
Eric Vishria
Eric Vishria31.5.2025
By and large, SaaS leaders dropping into rapidly scaling AI-native co's are struggling. It is like dropping rural Germans into the middle of modern Tokyo. The AI CEOs only know this pace, tech, sales cycle.. and can’t explain how these leaders should reframe. The SaaS people talk about quota capacity, qtrly roadmaps, & enterprise, which don’t mean anything to the AI CEOs and are generally irrelevant, at least for now. Bridging this is hard but critical. The productive combo of this wave & scaling expertise would turbocharge these already ripping companies.
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