Disambiguation · 2026-02-25 · 37 min
The biggest AI opportunity in enterprise isn't in your sales team or your chatbot. It's buried in the back office, where inefficiencies have been hiding for decades. What happens when seed-stage startups start solving those problems with 35 people instead of 35,000? In this episode, Michael Fauscette sits down with Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, to discuss where the real enterprise value is hiding in AI, why go-to-market matters more than ever, and what separates the founders who break through from those who stall. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - Matt's background and Social Leverage's 17-year investing journey 01:53 - How AI changed what matters at the seed stage 04:41 - What AI capabilities are actually delivering results vs.
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