What Successful AI Startups Have In Common

Matt Wolfe looks at what AI startups need to succeed, using TechCrunch Disrupt's Battlefield competition (which awards $100,000) as a case study. JetBrains builds AI tools that work alongside developers like a junior apprentice, not a replacement.
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So you've got a startup idea, the one that's going to change everything for you and for the world. But how do you build quickly and get investors interested? Well, we went to TechCrunch Disrupt for some of the answers. It's an annual gathering of startups who come to woo potential investors and face off against each other on the battlefield, literally. TechCrunch Disrupts Battlefield is a competition on stage to see who wins $100,000 of equity, free investment and helping drive this whole thing. Is the same company that developers at some of the biggest software companies are using to build right now.
JetBrains is a global software developer company. We have been into existence for five plus years now. If you think about these IDEs, they all have like a AI assistant, you know, which allows you to kind of do your natural language prompts and it'll do the code thing for you.
Jetbrains is all about making tech accessible, whether it's by helping fund budding startups or helping professionals write code faster and better.
We recently launched the keynote. It's like something that you can code with if you don't know how to code.
So think of this as like a junior apprenticeship that you have hired that are doing the job for you.
We do not the company believe in the replacement of the software development because.
We believe that.
Software development is not just about writing code. So the idea is, I think we can talk like openly about it. We don't think that developers would be replaced. We believe they would be reinforced by the AI features.
So whether you're a tech founder, solo developer or part of a global engineering team, if you want to learn more about JetBrains and their best in class software for developers, start check out their site at the link in the description.
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