Jason M. Lemkin argues that companies face an urgent deadline to adopt agentic AI technology. Speaking at Dreamforce, he emphasizes that startups need to move fast on new AI capabilities or risk falling behind competitors who do.
But if you're, if you, if you're running a company, if you don't have that answer today, you get an F. So let's talk.
We're here at Dreamforce. Let's talk about the agentic enterprise, which is kind of the vision that Salesforce was. Is talking about at this conference. How long does a company have, do you think, to get on board the. The train before they just miss the train? How fast do people need to be.
I said till Halloween, which is like for a startup. I said Halloween. Halloween's the very latest Halloween for a start. For a startup. Yeah, because you're going to get out competed if you're a startup, Right.
Okay, so you're already behind maybe like two weeks or you're already behind.
I'll tell you. You know, maybe it's mean. Every VC I know, every investor I know where the startup hasn't made the jump yet, they've given up that now they've lost hope.
Okay, tell me more.
They've all lost hope because it's not. I mean, you could make when chat GPD came out, we could all make fun of it, right? I mean, I honestly didn't get it at first. Like there were so many hallucinations, right? But if you didn't pay attention to how everything changed, at least at the start of 2025, and didn't have a plan, there's no excuse. Everything's great now. In fact, even mediocre software just got better when you put the fours in, right? Claude Forge, you could take the same. I don't know how Qualified changed, but I bet you it's a five times better product. Just changing the LLM. Like I tell us the story about qualified, I don't know if it's true, but I know it's true. I'm like the reason they're having to glow up because they've been doing this for a while. Like they have a great team, but you stick a better LLM. It was met and it was. I mean, Replit took 10 years to get to a million, right? They add, they add Cloud 4 now they're almost 200 million in one year. But it's the same IDE, right? It's the same software, right?
