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AI companies are judged against extreme growth, not just peers
In this episode of The AI Adoption Podcast, I speak with Sydney MacGregor from HSBC Innovation Banking about a critically important aspect of AI adoption: funding, risk, and scale.
Sydney works with more than 250 enterprise software companies, most of them building AI into their core products. She shares a clear view of the UK AI market, from the surge in early-stage activity to the harder reality of scaling beyond Series A.
We discuss the rise of AI agents over chatbots, investor expectations shaped by rapid revenue growth, and the pressure founders face when competing with businesses…
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