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If you’re building a SaaS product right now, you’ve already felt the tremor. Anxiety about the “SaaSpocalypse” is everywhere right now. It’s making people do some profoundly stupid things.

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Your team knows why you really made those cuts. And it wasn’t artificial intelligence.

A founder alone at a desk late at night, head in hands — the bottleneck closing in

The big-company AI playbook is making the founder bottleneck worse.