AI sales rep startups reach $1M in <1 year, according to an analysis from TechCrunch. “In some markets, we’re seeing five to 10 companies all have success in a pretty short period of time,” according to Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures.

"While it’s certainly not uncommon for multiple startups to target the same problem, it’s rare to see all of them experience rapid growth."

To translate this into actual figures, almost all of the AI SDR startups analyzed "had $1 million in ARR within less than a year".

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpeNAI, was asked what is the "biggest problem" facing the world. His answer was telling: