We talk about building software companies - Specifically about B2B SaaS with a focus on the German-speaking world. In the ARRtist on AIR podcast, successful B2B SaaS founders, top investors and leading industry partners and experts provide valuable tips and insights beyond the obvious. In the interviews, we talk to them about how software founders can increase ARR, how to scale an organisation, and which go-to-market strategies lead to success in the DACH market. How to improve the most important KPIs in SaaS and for B2B software? What added value do venture capital and private equity investors offer? Or is it worth bootstrapping a SaaS startup? In short: This podcast will help you scale B2B SaaS companies - informative, entertaining and straightforward.
https://arrtist.net/
????????190: How to actually use AI tools in your startup
Perspective of SaaS CFO turned investor Bob Thomas
We are taking a deep dive into AI from an investor’s perspective. Bob is a former SaaS CFO, and holds a master’s degree in computer science focusing on LLM’s and cyber security.
This episode offers a bird’s eye view of fundable models in AI, all the way down to hands-on advice on how to get AI models to work for a startup to improve product performance or reduce cost.
Bob offers some hands-on open-source alternatives to the big names. If you are interested in the rising stars of open source, be sure to read Oxx’s very own “Rising Stars of Open Source” Report (see below). The report highlights some of the most exciting software trends: notably the rise of generative AI and the rise of AI-enabling technologies and corresponding open source solutions ,e.g. agents, automation and novel database models.
Links: https://www.oxx.vc/rising-stars-2023
https://www.crewai.com/
https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/
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