Building Business Tools in the AI Age: Lessons from Boardy

About this episode

The episode discusses how AI is transforming business interactions, focusing on Boardy's networking tool and the latest developments in AI technology.

This week we're exploring how AI is reshaping business interactions through Boardy's innovative approach to networking. We also chat about OpenAI's Deep Research and Google Gemini 2.0's release. Learn about: • How Boardy raised $8M using its own AI networking tool • Converting conversations into structured business data • Internal vs. external uses of conversational AI • Building tools that meet users where they are • The latest capabilities of Google's Gemini 2.0 • Real-world cost compariso...

People in this episode

Host: Work Less

Topics covered

• AI in business
• networking tools
• conversational AI
• business data
• Google Gemini 2.0
• AI fundraising

Keywords

• AI
• business tools
• networking
• conversational AI
• Google Gemini
• OpenAI
• fundraising
• structured data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boardy, OpenAI, Google

Products: Gemini 2.0

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