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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: AI SaaS: 5 Years and 33M Data Points to Ship a Product
Description: Dennis Mortensen counted 1,019 meetings in his calendar from the past year. 672 had to be rescheduled. That pain led him to spend five years building an AI SaaS that most founders would never attempt. In this episode, Dennis reveals why he spent months trying to talk himself out of building x.ai, how he validated the idea by hiring a human assistant for 50 friends, and what building AI products really takes.
Dennis raised a $2M seed round with a radical pitch: the only outcome would be a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether the AI SaaS was...