AIs Wide Open Podcast Rohan Sampath

Rohan and Godard talk about:
- Godard’s entrepreneurial journey: how his first company, BigMachines nearly failed 3 years in, how he and his co-founders kept going
- AI Monty - G2’s latest AI release, a chat-based assistant for evaluating and choosing software vendors
- How AI is likely to lead to a complete overhaul in CRM and associate sales tech
Why G2 is fundamentally a data company, and why every software company will be a data company in the age of AI
- G2's proprietary data advantage and how it will continue to expand that data advantage

Will college degrees survive the incredible pace of skill shifts?

Rohan and David explore the future of learning in a world of shrinking skill lifespans.

David reveals a jaw-dropping stat: the average half-life of a skill (the time it takes for a skill to become half as valuable) has plummeted from 15 years a few decades ago to just 2 years - making skills obsolete in a flash. Lifelong learning is now an imperative, not just a nice to have.

Rohan and David also talk about:
- Whether college degrees are becoming a thing of the past or stepping stones to lifelong learning.
- “Jailbreaking” the traditional college degree and how to thrive in today’s digital age where technology outpaces classrooms.
- Strategies for thriving in a job market where adaptability is the new currency.
- What AI means for the skills of the future
- How Degreed acts as a personal learning GPS, guiding towards relevant skills and career pathways.

Rohan speaks with Jon Ziglar, CEO of Rent. Group (including Rent.com, Rentals.com, Redfin, among others), to discuss the role of technology and AI in the rental property market.

They talk about Rent.’s adoption of a unique omni-channel strategy and how Rent. has been pioneering content creation and highly targeted social media campaigns powered by AI.

Jon shares his vision for how AI adoption will create an even more healthy and robust rental marketplace - property owners can be incredibly efficient in scaling their businesses, and renters can more easily find properties suiting their needs.

4 years ago, Oleg was incredibly prescient about the future of AI in B2B on a podcast with a16z. Many of his predictions in that podcast - around how data models and workflows will be transformed in the years ahead with the explosion in AI capabilities - are now proving to be true.

Rohan and Oleg talk about the future of sales tech, copilot, and autopilot use cases for Language Models, and how proprietary data is - more than ever - the biggest competitive advantage for companies.

Mikita shares his vision of PandaDoc being the default location for deals to be conducted in 5 years and explains how PandaDoc plans to use AI to achieve that vision. Rohan and Mikita also talk about: a) the ups and downs of being a bootstrapped founder, b) what CROs are looking for in AI, c) data privacy considerations in using off-the-shelf models vs building in-house.

Chris and Rohan talk about the major areas of progress and improvement for LLMs in the future and the landscape of LLMs in 5 years.

The multi-billion dollar question - what will the landscape of LLMs look like in 5 years? Do people expect a handful of dominant LLM Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, etc., or will there be an ecosystem of LLMs created by every enterprise?

They also talk about AI Safety: what are people's concerns from an AI safety standpoint? Do people subscribe to the more general-purpose Alignment?