Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // Eliot Durbin // #293

Future of Software, Agents in the Enterprise, and Inception Stage Company Building // MLOps Podcast 293 with Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures.Join the Community: https://go.mlops.community/YTJoinIn Get the newsletter: https://go.mlops.community/YTNewsletter // AbstractKey lessons for founders who are thinking about or starting their companies. 15 years of inception stage investing from how data science companies like Yhat went to market in 2013-14 and how that's evolved, to building companies around OSS frameworks like CrewAI; Eliot shares key learnings and questions for founders starting out.// BioEliot has been a General Partner @ Boldstart Ventures since its founding in 2010. Boldstart is an inception-stage lead investor for technical founders building the next generation of enterprise companies such as Clay, Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, and CrewAI. // Related LinksWebsite: boldstart.vchttps://medium.com/@etdurbin~~~~~~~~ ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ~~~~~~~Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://go.mlops.community/TYExploreJoin our Slack community [https://go.mlops.community/slack]Follow us on X/Twitter [@mlopscommunity](https://x.com/mlopscommunity) or LinkedIn (https://go.mlops.community/linkedin) Sign up for the next meetup: [https://go.mlops.community/register]MLOps Swag/Merch: [https://shop.mlops.community/]Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: /dpbrinkmConnect with Eliot on LinkedIn: /eliotdurbinTimestamps:[00:00] Eliot's preferred coffee[00:32] Takeaways[01:36] Investing Regret Lesson[03:20] Founder-Market Fit Exploration[06:05] Exciting AI Missions[16:15] AI Integration Dilemmas[21:28] Open-source Stack Concerns[25:30] AI Agent Interaction Layers[30:02] ChatOps Agent Orchestration[33:18] Agent Pricing Challenges[38:37] Evals in Agent Systems[45:43] Strong Opinions and Enablement[48:07] Gemini OCR Replacement[51:56] Wrap up