There is a big debate on whether software will survive. Yes it will but it won’t look like software today. Here is the medium term arc on software that I see:
Every software startup starts by being a product or a solution. Some become platforms at scale but that’s not a Series A, B, C or even D table-stakes. Now it is. It is day 0 table stakes.
So how do you get your org out of the ‘hire for scaling’ mindset and shift to ‘building agents for hyper scalability’? 2 ideas that are working for us..
Recently, a few colleagues - relatively new to the org and relatively unnoticed before - suddenly became the stars. What did they do? One of them for e.g. built a hubspot killer (we are a small sales team) in a week. With far more superpowers when integrated with glyphic and GWC.
We all know the story of that really smart product manager who was picked to one day become the CEO of Google. Those folks are getting picked right now across orgs and will be on the fast track.