Beware AI Is Quietly Killing These Online Business Models - Don’t Buy These, Unless… with Jaryd Krause

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Jaryd Krause discusses the impact of AI on online business models and strategies for buyers in a changing market.

What if the biggest risk right now isn’t a bad deal - but doing nothing? While most buyers wait for the AI dust to settle, the ones who understand what’s happening are quietly buying assets at discounts that won’t exist a year from now. The shift isn’t theoretical. Digital Trends lost 90% of its Google traffic - from 8.5M clicks to 65K. HubSpot lost nearly half its organic traffic in two months. Atlassian dropped 35% as enterprise usage declined. Salesforce fell 28%. And Monday.com replaced a 24-person sales team with AI in minutes. This has already happened. So the real question isn’t if AI is reshaping the market - it’s whether you know which businesses are still worth buying, how to price the risk, and when to walk away. In this episode, Jaryd breaks down how to spot hidden value in “declining” assets, why some SaaS models are collapsing, and how AI risk can be used as leverage - not fear. Because the buyers winning right now aren’t panicking or waiting. They’re moving with a strategy. 🎧 Hit play - this is your edge in an AI-disrupted market.   Episode Highlights 00:47 - A practical guide to which business…

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Guest: Jaryd Krause

Topics covered

• AI impact on business models
• online business buying strategies
• declining assets
• SaaS market changes
• digital traffic loss
• AI in sales

Keywords

• AI
• online business
• SaaS
• traffic loss
• business models
• digital trends
• buying strategies

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Organizations: Digital Trends, HubSpot, Atlassian, Salesforce, Monday.com

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