Melker Pasternak Ivarsson: When Software Becomes Free, What Businesses Survive?

If anyone can build an app, what happens to SaaS? Melker Pasternak Ivarsson joins us to discuss what happens when AI makes software dramatically cheaper and easier to create.

We explore whether SaaS is actually dying, the rise of micro SaaS and one-person companies, and the three business moats Melker believes AI cannot easily reproduce: network effects, proprietary data and licenses or IP.

Melker explains Haier's zero-distance model, where a huge organization operates more like a collection of autonomous startups, and we compare it with the flatter structures used by companies like Valve and Spotify.

We also get into AI implementation inside existing companies, why frontline employees often have better AI ideas than management, what he's building with Ordana, and why entrepreneurship is mostly about sucking slightly less each time you try.