A barrier I'm seeing for chat/pilot ux in old school industries is the reliance on users to generate the knowledge for the system to do its thing. Knowledge in these spaces tend to be tribal, making it hard to build a generalized products and have it adopted at a rapid pace.
100% energy makes a difference. demos, office hours, etc is basically unbundling an aspect of big co/faang/academia culture for founders, freelancers, hackers to access.
So I disagree that office hours, walk n’ talks, and town halls are pointless.
On contrary, they provide the most important thing that good founders need to build good businesses-> energetic environments.
Capital will follow when good founders build good businesses in Canada 7/9
it's actually such a superpower to be solving problems as an outsider/novice in a legacy industry. like you have nothing to go off of so you're just default first principles.
this is actually why it's possible to build enterprise saas companies. the amount of bs inefficiencies and mess that can be abstracted away are endless.