SAAS Operators · 2026-08-13 · 48 min
In this episode of the SaaS Operators Podcast, Rishabh Jain is fresh off three 20 hour days, a 20-minute layover in Denver, and four hours of sleep. Fueled by coffee and diet coke with zero complaints.The conversation starts with the AI adoption gap. Rishabh came back from Cincinnati with a clear read, the average person there is about two years behind SF, not nine months. Jeremiah added that the early adopter bubble is small, and the people outside it are just now using ChatGPT to rewrite website copy. Yash shares what’s happening in the India AI space. Bangalore is moving, Anthropic and Cursor both have offices there, and a generation of graduates who want startups over Infosys are driving it.Jack raises the first mover question. If anyone can build what used to take six months in an afternoon, what's the actual moat? Rishabh's answer: it depends on what the business is optimizing for. VC-backed, you land grab. Cash flow business, maybe speed matters less. Shipping velocity and stability get unpacked too, and Rishabh draws a line. Agentic workflow software doesn't have the same availability requirement as transactional software.
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