Two deals, two different versions of software’s future. There is a race going on in every corner of the software market. In the first lane are legacy horizontal or vertical players that spent years building complicated software that automates workflows and captures data, like Salesforce, Adobe, and Microsoft Windows. In lane two are AI startups that are using generative AI to eschew building the complicated software in the first place in favor of automating away the workflows entirely. Two legal software companies that raised money
