The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market

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With traditional B2B SaaS, we augmented human work and services with software. Now, the software itself is doing the whole job. AI is forcing a reversal of the SaaS acronym. From Software-as-a-Service to Service-as-a-Software. The big picture: the rise of AI workers is creating a fusion of the software and labor market. This is going to create massive opportunities for Founders. SaaS companies have historically brought analog processes into the digital world. They were aimed at making certain aspects of existing job descriptions easier to manage. But SaaS could never run itself. It always required a company to maintain a workforce to operate that software. For example, you could purchase a SaaS sales tool but you still had to hire, and train a salesperson to do the work. Across the whole economy, this means the labor market, and the software markets have been separate – and within a company, the hiring budget has always been orders of magnitude larger than the software budget. If you r

The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market Get our weekly newsletter that 322K+ startup teams read Subscribe The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market Pete Flint & Anna Piñol · @peteflint & @annapinol_ Apr 2024 · AI Pete Flint & Anna Piñol @peteflint & @annapinol_ Apr 2024 · AI Table of Contents Labor and Software Are Becoming One Market Two Approaches to “AI Workforce” Companies 1. Sell “AI Colleagues” (Internal) 2. Sell “AI Vendors/ Services” (External) Where Will AI Workers First Dominate? Who Will Be the First to Adopt AI Workers? Why Startups Have a Head Start

The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market

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