Partnerships for Native AI Companies with Chris Samila

About this episode

Bill Kenney discusses the evolving partnership ecosystems in the AI industry with Chris Samila.

Partnership ecosystems are evolving quickly as native AI companies scale at unprecedented speed. In this Belly2Belly episode, Bill Kenney talks with Chris Samila from Partnership Leaders about how AI companies are building partner programs, why distribution matters more than ever, and how service and technology partners are beginning to blend together in the AI economy. Chris Samila, Partnership Leaders https://www.partnershipleaders.com/ https://www.joincatalyst.com/ https://www.linkedin.co...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Kenney

Guest: Chris Samila

Topics covered

• partnerships
• AI companies
• partner programs
• distribution
• technology partners

Keywords

• native AI
• service partners
• AI economy

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Partnership Leaders, Catalyst

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