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Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on June 8 at Pax8 Beyond 2026 in Salt Lake City with Scott Chasin, Chief Executive Officer at Pax8. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed how the total addressable market (TAM) for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in IT spend has eclipsed the amount for large enterprises, in large part because of the recent wave of AI-native businesses coming to market. He also emphasized that the opportunity to deploy agentic AI in SMBs remains a massive opportunity that’s just beginning to be harnessed, as evidenced by only 90,000 to 100,000 managed service providers working with about 400 million SMBs worldwide. Watch the interview to get the whole story from Mr. Chasin.
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About Scott Chasin
Scott Chasin is a serial entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups in collaboration, security, and cloud. Scott is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Pax8, a cloud marketplace that empowers the modern MSP to buy, sell, and manage cloud products. Before joining Pax8, Scott was the founder and CEO of Protectwise, an innovative network security company acquired by Verizon. Previous to Protectwise, he founded several venture-backed startups, including USA.NET (acquired by BAE Systems), MX Logic (acquired by McAfee), and Bugtraq (acquired by Symantec).
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About Pax8
Pax8 is the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Pax8 connects service providers and technology companies on a unified platform to discover, buy, sell, deploy and manage technology solutions for SMBs. More than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs rely on Pax8 for expertise, automation and real-time insights to stay productive, protected and prepared for the AI economy.
