“We were so close to the finish line and boom ‘SaaS is dead’. We are restarting…. There is one more round to run.”

That’s an honest admission from Avinash Raghava, the founding volunteer and CEO of the pay-it-forward community SaaSBoomi. As someone who has spent years building networks and communities — at Nasscom, Accel, and Together Fund previously — Avinash has a full view of the inflection point that founders are at.

They are having to reinvent themselves, change business models and pivot entirely to become AI-native. The idea is to disrupt their own models before the market does. 

SaaSBoomi is undergoing its own transformation. It is now AIBoomi, with the primary focus of helping founders navigate the new world where old SaaS playbooks are irrelevant. 

Can there be a new playbook? How does one write it? How does one learn, grow, and create a community along the way? 

Avinash takes on all of these questions in this episode. The result is a conversation that captures and dissects the crossroads that SaaS is currently at. Tune in!

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This episode was produced by Vidhatri Rao and edited by Rajiv CN.

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The Three-Body Problem (novel)

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