The Slow Death Of Legacy Software, with Joe Stolte
May 28, 2024
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Joe Stolte, CEO of Daily.ai, discusses how AI is transforming the software industry, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs. They explore AI adoption, investment strategies, user experience shifts in big companies, and the impact on tech workers. They also talk about growing an email newsletter and the balance between AI and human creativity in content creation.
AI is rapidly transforming software businesses, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Investing in AI involves strategic choices, not just backing quality innovations.
Deep dives
Introduction of Joe Stolte and his Company
Joe Stolte, the CEO and co-founder of daily.ai, discusses how his company helps entrepreneurs create AI automated email and newsletters efficiently, with high open rates and minimal time commitment. With a focus on using AI to enhance content marketing strategies, Stolte explains the benefits of their services in streamlining email marketing processes.
Challenges in Leveraging AI for Content Marketing
Stolte highlights the misconception in the marketplace where individuals and businesses assume that everyone is effectively leveraging AI for content marketing. He discusses the need for more targeted and intentional approaches instead of relying on a 'spray and pray' method. Stolte envisions an AI program that can analyze podcast transcripts to identify relevant keywords for targeted outreach, emphasizing the current lack of such a service.
AI Adoption Phases and Predictions
Delving into the adoption phases of AI, Stolte compares it to the diffusion of technology curve, suggesting that we are currently in the early adopters' phase. He anticipates a rapid shift towards more intentional and widespread AI usage, driven by its rapid adoption rate and transformative capabilities. Stolte refrains from making precise date predictions but acknowledges the exponential growth of AI adoption.
Reflections on AI's Impact on Creativity
In a personal reflection, Stolte discusses his evolving perspective on integrating AI into his creative process. Initially skeptical about AI's role in creativity, he now sees it as a valuable thought partner, initiating and refining creative ideas. Stolte emphasizes the collaborative nature of human-AI creativity, using AI as a catalyst for generating and enhancing ideas while preserving the human touch in the final output.
Joe Stolte is the CEO and co-founder of Daily.ai, an innovative artificial intelligence newsletter that designs, writes, and tests itself to cater to user preferences. He shares with Dan and Gord the ways AI is “eating software”—posing an existential threat to huge software businesses like Google, yet creating exciting new opportunities for entrepreneurs.
In This Episode:
Never before has a new technology been adopted as quickly and widely as AI.
People are using AI passively without realizing it, but many are also quickly finding active, strategic, intentional uses for it.
Investment in technology is often about placing bets rather than backing quality innovations.
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are in a symbiotic relationship.
Large software companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google are having to shift their thinking around user experience.
Thousands of talented tech workers have been laid off, which could lead to many simple, smart, easy-to-use innovations.
Short-sighted, user-hostile thinking is an organizational culture cancer.
News media being funded by subscriptions leads to giving subscribers only what they want to see, creating echo chambers and divisiveness.
Strategies for growing an email newsletter: You can pay with your money or with your time—and either is fine. (Ads aren’t “dirty.”)
“AI is like a really, really good intern: You wouldn't ship intern work to the marketplace.” —Joe Stolte