Jake Stauch is the co-founder and CEO of Serval, an AI-native platform that automates the work of corporate IT teams, recently valued at $1 billion after a $75M Series B led by Sequoia. In this conversation, the co-founder and CEO of Serval breaks down how to tell real product market fit from the delusion that fools most founders, why he never runs formal customer interviews, and the contrarian AI bet behind one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-rising enterprise startups. *Key Takeaways* 1. Rabid fans are not proof of product market fit. Jake mistook a small, passionate market for PMF for seven…

