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"AI will reduce your bottom line and stablecoins will ultimately increase your top line." kareem saw this coming early. He positioned Entendre to build FOR stablecoin native companies, instead of building one himself. As stablecoins began to solve real problems, the winners would grow into massive businesses onchain with... complex books to close. So he built the accounting tooling those companies would need to scale. Before Entendre, he built cash management systems at Workday, then joined WeWork at peak valuation, where 300+ accountants couldn't keep up with the accounting at scale. When ChatGPT launched, he founded Entendre with his brother Omar and designer Andy, and the three of them built AI accounting software for some of the fastest growing organizations in the world. They built agents to automate stablecoin and digital asset accounting for companies like Polygon Labs, Brale, Courtyard, and Babylon Labs. In the last 12 months, their customers have raised over $1 billion in venture capital. Last month MoonPay 🟣 acquired the company to power the financial operations layer of the stablecoin economy. His bet: by 2030 half the accountants will have retired, every dollar moving onchain still has to land in a ledger, and agents are how the books get kept. Kareem's conversation with : 1:30 - Youngest engineer on Workday's financial side 6:44 - Why everyone used to fight over the general ledger 10:11 - WeWork at peak valuation and 300 accountants falling behind 13:05 - How he built Cloud Kitchens' money platform from scratch 19:22 - 3 million CPAs, $100T GDP, and 50% retiring by 2030 21:04 - Why stablecoins grow top line and AI cuts bottom line 23:41 - Three levels of AI adoption and where most people are stuck 29:00 - How ChatGPT's launch led to founding Entendre 31:29 - Customers who've raised over $1 billion in VC 35:37 - Polygon Labs: 32 legal entities on one platform 37:51 - Dual Entry and the $90M AI-native ERP partnership 38:33 - Why MoonPay acquired Entendre 43:17 - First startup, first exit, first time raising capital 52:44 - 10x revenue growth and the 2025 inflection point Episode 0052. Presented to you by Altitudeshow more

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.Sam Broner spent years at a16z crypto studying hundreds of stablecoin-focused startups. Mature fintechs, banks weighing their stablecoin strategy, early teams pitching infrastructure plays. The one pattern that kept surfacing: stablecoins were built for trading, not payments. Before a16z, Broner was an engineer at Microsoft, where he built the Fluid Framework that helped re-platform Word from desktop to browser. He demoed for Bill Gates two weeks into the project. Spent time at the Boston Fed's stablecoin initiative during MIT Sloan, angel invested in Cursor before most people had heard of it, and kept circling back to the same problem: moving from one stablecoin to another still works like a trade, not a payment. That's when he founded The Better Money Company - a stablecoin clearinghouse. Any stablecoin in, any stablecoin out, at a fixed price, with a guaranteed time of delivery. Its member issuers include Bridge, Paxos Labs, Agora, M0, MoonPay 🟣, brale, and Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤. Clients include Ramp, Privy, Turnkey 🔑, and Modern Treasury. The Better Money Company raised $10 million from a16z crypto, BoxGroup, and Sunflower Capital, and came out of stealth last week. Broner's point is simple. You don't sell Wells Fargo dollars at a variable price to get Bank of America dollars. Stablecoins shouldn't work that way either. Sam Broner sat down with Drew Rogers in Brooklyn. 00:00 - "I was living in Beijing in 2017" 02:24 - Paperwork in payments, and why engineers find it ridiculous 06:49 - MIT Sloan, the Boston Fed, and the stablecoin research scene 09:07 - The Fluid Framework: coding under a podium while Satya watched 13:10 - Why making payments a little bit better matters at massive scale 15:08 - Stablecoins are optimized for trading pairs, not payment flows 17:20 - What a clearinghouse is: from London taverns to hub-and-spoke 21:46 - Guaranteed pricing, guaranteed settlement, compliant clearing 25:41 - "Better money needs to be one to one" 31:52 - Instant payouts for gig workers: a weekend build on stablecoin rails 33:49 - Tourists in the Bazaar: how agents will transact 39:58 - Atomic payments and why faster settlement changes everything 44:01 - Why enterprise agent payments dwarf consumer agent payments 47:38 - Selling shovels vs. going for gold 53:24 - What's next for The Better Money Company Episode 0048, Presented by Altitude

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253,439 просмотров • 1 год назад

Mitchell Green is the co-founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, a $9B growth equity firm he founded in 2011. For 15 years, he and his partners have built one of the most disciplined investment machines in the business, designed to deliver consistent returns by hitting doubles and triples rather than chasing power law outcomes. He obsesses over avoiding zeros and is constantly underwriting investments to know exactly when to sell. He has built a unique culture at Lead Edge, sending handwritten thank you notes to nearly everyone he meets and sitting down one on one with every person at the firm once a year. He is, by his own admission, one of the most persistent and competitive people you will meet. After the episode, he told me he believes the most important thing in life is to be memorable. You will find, listening to this conversation, that he very much is. We discuss: - Why it’s the best time to buy public software companies - Lessons from 10,000 cold calls - His unique LP base - Why consistency of returns matters more than home runs - The art of knowing when to sell - How culture is built from the top + the importance of follow-through - What skiing taught him about risk and competition Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 The Hierarchy of BS 2:20 Lessons From 10,000 Cold Calls 9:05 Base Hits vs. Grand Slams 15:24 The 8 Buying Criteria 17:24 Pricing and the AI Exit Multiple Trap 19:24 Software as a Game of Distribution 23:20 Creative Deal Structuring 26:27 The Framework for Focus 29:01 The Art of the Investigative Cold Call 34:24 Culture of Hustle 35:34 The Annual One-on-One Process 37:59 Playing to Strengths 39:43 The Mount Rushmore of Investment Machines 42:05 Fears and Excitement Around AI 48:54 Ski Racing 52:29 Advice for Starting a Firm 54:35 The Kindest Thing

Mitchell Green is the co-founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, a $9B growth equity firm he founded in 2011. For 15 years, he and his partners have built one of the most disciplined investment machines in the business, designed to deliver consistent returns by hitting doubles and triples rather than chasing power law outcomes. He obsesses over avoiding zeros and is constantly underwriting investments to know exactly when to sell. He has built a unique culture at Lead Edge, sending handwritten thank you notes to nearly everyone he meets and sitting down one on one with every person at the firm once a year. He is, by his own admission, one of the most persistent and competitive people you will meet. After the episode, he told me he believes the most important thing in life is to be memorable. You will find, listening to this conversation, that he very much is. We discuss: - Why it’s the best time to buy public software companies - Lessons from 10,000 cold calls - His unique LP base - Why consistency of returns matters more than home runs - The art of knowing when to sell - How culture is built from the top + the importance of follow-through - What skiing taught him about risk and competition Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 The Hierarchy of BS 2:20 Lessons From 10,000 Cold Calls 9:05 Base Hits vs. Grand Slams 15:24 The 8 Buying Criteria 17:24 Pricing and the AI Exit Multiple Trap 19:24 Software as a Game of Distribution 23:20 Creative Deal Structuring 26:27 The Framework for Focus 29:01 The Art of the Investigative Cold Call 34:24 Culture of Hustle 35:34 The Annual One-on-One Process 37:59 Playing to Strengths 39:43 The Mount Rushmore of Investment Machines 42:05 Fears and Excitement Around AI 48:54 Ski Racing 52:29 Advice for Starting a Firm 54:35 The Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

738,218 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Mark Pincus (mark pincus) is the founder of Zynga and the author of "Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love", where he distills the product philosophy and founder playbook he developed across five companies. In this episode of Main Function with Garry Tan, Mark reflects on building through three platform shifts: the web, social networking, and now AI. He shares his "Proven, Better, New" framework for product development, explains how founders can recognize real product-market fit, and discusses why the biggest consumer AI companies are still waiting to be built. 01:09 — Why Mark wrote the book 03:44 — Three eras of the Internet 04:22 — How Napster started social networking 06:19 — The Opus 4.5 Moment 09:46 — Proven, Better, New 12:59 — Why Investors are wrong about consumer 14:07 — The distribution problem 16:36 — Killing your ego to kill bad ideas 18:41 — When the fish are running 21:23 — Founder Mode is for everyone 28:13 — Tokenmaxxing 37:04 — Intelligence on tap 38:41 — The business plan of free

Mark Pincus (mark pincus) is the founder of Zynga and the author of "Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love", where he distills the product philosophy and founder playbook he developed across five companies. In this episode of Main Function with Garry Tan, Mark reflects on building through three platform shifts: the web, social networking, and now AI. He shares his "Proven, Better, New" framework for product development, explains how founders can recognize real product-market fit, and discusses why the biggest consumer AI companies are still waiting to be built. 01:09 — Why Mark wrote the book 03:44 — Three eras of the Internet 04:22 — How Napster started social networking 06:19 — The Opus 4.5 Moment 09:46 — Proven, Better, New 12:59 — Why Investors are wrong about consumer 14:07 — The distribution problem 16:36 — Killing your ego to kill bad ideas 18:41 — When the fish are running 21:23 — Founder Mode is for everyone 28:13 — Tokenmaxxing 37:04 — Intelligence on tap 38:41 — The business plan of free

Y Combinator

57,180 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

"What we’ve done is solve hallucinations in general AI by anchoring the model to truth—your company’s real data, goals, people, and structure. With our context engine, the AI understands who you are, why you exist, and what you’re trying to do. So every answer is grounded in your company’s DNA. That’s how we built FOSTR." Today’s episode is with Co-Founder, Jason Baxter, to introduce our latest venture, FOSTR AI—a company built to solve one of the most pressing challenges facing businesses today: how to implement AI in your business in a meaningful, aligned, and scalable way. We unpack the fragmented state of AI adoption across small to mid-sized businesses and explain why most organizations, despite interest, are either stuck in experimentation or using disconnected tools that don’t move the business forward. FOSTR AI is the answer to that problem—an execution intelligence layer that creates a company's “digital twin,” aligning AI usage with team structure, goals, and strategy from day one. We discuss how FOSTR helps companies: - Onboard and operationalize AI in a matter of minutes - Centralize AI usage across teams while maintaining control, security, and context - Reduce risk from siloed tools and misaligned AI use Whether you're running a 50-person business or leading an enterprise team, this episode explores how to unlock the full potential of AI, without losing visibility or control. If you’re an owner, operator, investor, or builder curious about the future of AI in business, this episode offers a first look at what that future will look like. 0:52 - Introducing FOSTR 2:40 - The challenges businesses face with AI today 5:14 - How companies and employees are misusing AI. 10:29 - Additional Challenges 12:33 - How FOSTR is creating alignment between companies and AI Solutions. 25:57 - Where FOSTR is in its life cycle 30:39 - How to get in touch with, work at, or invest in FOSTR

"What we’ve done is solve hallucinations in general AI by anchoring the model to truth—your company’s real data, goals, people, and structure. With our context engine, the AI understands who you are, why you exist, and what you’re trying to do. So every answer is grounded in your company’s DNA. That’s how we built FOSTR." Today’s episode is with Co-Founder, Jason Baxter, to introduce our latest venture, FOSTR AI—a company built to solve one of the most pressing challenges facing businesses today: how to implement AI in your business in a meaningful, aligned, and scalable way. We unpack the fragmented state of AI adoption across small to mid-sized businesses and explain why most organizations, despite interest, are either stuck in experimentation or using disconnected tools that don’t move the business forward. FOSTR AI is the answer to that problem—an execution intelligence layer that creates a company's “digital twin,” aligning AI usage with team structure, goals, and strategy from day one. We discuss how FOSTR helps companies: - Onboard and operationalize AI in a matter of minutes - Centralize AI usage across teams while maintaining control, security, and context - Reduce risk from siloed tools and misaligned AI use Whether you're running a 50-person business or leading an enterprise team, this episode explores how to unlock the full potential of AI, without losing visibility or control. If you’re an owner, operator, investor, or builder curious about the future of AI in business, this episode offers a first look at what that future will look like. 0:52 - Introducing FOSTR 2:40 - The challenges businesses face with AI today 5:14 - How companies and employees are misusing AI. 10:29 - Additional Challenges 12:33 - How FOSTR is creating alignment between companies and AI Solutions. 25:57 - Where FOSTR is in its life cycle 30:39 - How to get in touch with, work at, or invest in FOSTR

Chris Powers

41,751 просмотров • 1 год назад

Over the past few months at Dedalus Labs, we’ve noticed how many talented founders from around the world are being held back by one thing: location. There is no better place in the world to build an AI startup than San Francisco. SF is home to all the major AI labs, top talent, world-class investors, and it is where the future is being built every day. That’s why, this December, we’re giving builders everywhere a chance to break in. We are taking over and launching Break In—a month-long hacker house program in the heart of San Francisco. If you’re not from SF, and you’re building an AI startup, this is your chance to join us. Build your startup on top of Dedalus’ Agents SDK or MCP deployment infrastructure and we’ll cover your stay (housing, lunch, and co-working space). As a member of Break In, you’ll get access to all the best parts of SF. You’ll be introduced to top founders, mentors, and investors. You’ll get to skip the line at the biggest tech events. Plus, you’ll receive free API credits and expanded access to the best-in-class AI stack through our partner network of top AI infrastructure companies. Applications open October 27th and close November 10th. We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis. Final acceptances will go out November 14th to ensure international founders have enough time to secure visas. Ready to break in? Follow us on Twitter/X for more updates and visit the link in the comments to apply on October 27th!

Over the past few months at Dedalus Labs, we’ve noticed how many talented founders from around the world are being held back by one thing: location. There is no better place in the world to build an AI startup than San Francisco. SF is home to all the major AI labs, top talent, world-class investors, and it is where the future is being built every day. That’s why, this December, we’re giving builders everywhere a chance to break in. We are taking over and launching Break In—a month-long hacker house program in the heart of San Francisco. If you’re not from SF, and you’re building an AI startup, this is your chance to join us. Build your startup on top of Dedalus’ Agents SDK or MCP deployment infrastructure and we’ll cover your stay (housing, lunch, and co-working space). As a member of Break In, you’ll get access to all the best parts of SF. You’ll be introduced to top founders, mentors, and investors. You’ll get to skip the line at the biggest tech events. Plus, you’ll receive free API credits and expanded access to the best-in-class AI stack through our partner network of top AI infrastructure companies. Applications open October 27th and close November 10th. We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis. Final acceptances will go out November 14th to ensure international founders have enough time to secure visas. Ready to break in? Follow us on Twitter/X for more updates and visit the link in the comments to apply on October 27th!

Cathy Di

109,650 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

What does it actually mean to be AI native? There was no clear guide on the internet for how to become AI native so we built the definitive one (60 min masterclass): 1. An AI native org has 3 layers: people for strategy and taste, agents for execution, and a shared context layer that makes the entire company readable to agents. 2. AI eats the middle of your work. You used to spend 80% of your day on execution. Now agents do that. Your job is the bookends: deciding what to do and judging whether it's good enough. 3. Everyone is a manager now. Your output is the output of your agents. If your agents produce garbage, that's on you. You set them up wrong. 4. Using ChatGPT doesn't make you AI native. That's like having a website and calling yourself a tech company lol. 5. No AI native org without AI native people. Most companies skip straight to the tools. That's why it fails. If your people don't understand how to manage agents, the tech doesn't matter. 6. Making your company "readable" to agents is the real work. Every process, every decision, every piece of knowledge needs to exist in a format an agent can consume. Most companies are nowhere close. 7. Speed without signal is just expensive chaos. You need the system to move fast AND know if you're moving in the right direction. 8. The skill chain is how agents get good at your specific workflows. Skills build on skills. The more you invest in them, the more your company compounds. 9. The moat is the system. People managing agents, agents reading from rich context, the whole thing getting smarter every week. That compounds. Your competitor can copy your tools. They can't copy your system. Full episode with Theo Tabah from LCA on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃. This is the stuff we normally keep internal but all the sauce is yours. Theo Tabah is the brains behind advising the world's biggest companies on AI and building AI products. Your fav CEO's first call for figuring out AI. You are in for a treat Become AI native in under 60 minutes Watch

What does it actually mean to be AI native? There was no clear guide on the internet for how to become AI native so we built the definitive one (60 min masterclass): 1. An AI native org has 3 layers: people for strategy and taste, agents for execution, and a shared context layer that makes the entire company readable to agents. 2. AI eats the middle of your work. You used to spend 80% of your day on execution. Now agents do that. Your job is the bookends: deciding what to do and judging whether it's good enough. 3. Everyone is a manager now. Your output is the output of your agents. If your agents produce garbage, that's on you. You set them up wrong. 4. Using ChatGPT doesn't make you AI native. That's like having a website and calling yourself a tech company lol. 5. No AI native org without AI native people. Most companies skip straight to the tools. That's why it fails. If your people don't understand how to manage agents, the tech doesn't matter. 6. Making your company "readable" to agents is the real work. Every process, every decision, every piece of knowledge needs to exist in a format an agent can consume. Most companies are nowhere close. 7. Speed without signal is just expensive chaos. You need the system to move fast AND know if you're moving in the right direction. 8. The skill chain is how agents get good at your specific workflows. Skills build on skills. The more you invest in them, the more your company compounds. 9. The moat is the system. People managing agents, agents reading from rich context, the whole thing getting smarter every week. That compounds. Your competitor can copy your tools. They can't copy your system. Full episode with Theo Tabah from LCA on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃. This is the stuff we normally keep internal but all the sauce is yours. Theo Tabah is the brains behind advising the world's biggest companies on AI and building AI products. Your fav CEO's first call for figuring out AI. You are in for a treat Become AI native in under 60 minutes Watch

GREG ISENBERG

84,497 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Arc Public Testnet is live. Arc is an open Layer-1 blockchain designed to serve as the Economic OS for the internet, uniting programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity. Arc is uniquely suited to be a new trusted foundation for: → Lending and financial services → Capital markets → Tokenized asset issuance → Stablecoin settlement worldwide With deterministic sub-second finality, stablecoins as native gas, and opt-in configurable privacy, Arc is purpose-built to meet the needs of the global financial system. It’s built for a world where: → Financial apps are as accessible as email → Dollars, euros, pesos, and other fiat currencies move instantly → Private transactions that support compliance happen at scale → AI agents transact and coordinate commercial activity autonomously Arc testnet is already seeing participation from leading companies across capital markets, global payments and technology platforms, and full-stack developer infrastructure providers. Guided by Circle’s vision of making money truly open and programmable, Arc is public internet infrastructure that invites everyone to build, coordinate, and transact onchain. Start building: Read the release:

Arc Public Testnet is live. Arc is an open Layer-1 blockchain designed to serve as the Economic OS for the internet, uniting programmable money and onchain innovation with real-world economic activity. Arc is uniquely suited to be a new trusted foundation for: → Lending and financial services → Capital markets → Tokenized asset issuance → Stablecoin settlement worldwide With deterministic sub-second finality, stablecoins as native gas, and opt-in configurable privacy, Arc is purpose-built to meet the needs of the global financial system. It’s built for a world where: → Financial apps are as accessible as email → Dollars, euros, pesos, and other fiat currencies move instantly → Private transactions that support compliance happen at scale → AI agents transact and coordinate commercial activity autonomously Arc testnet is already seeing participation from leading companies across capital markets, global payments and technology platforms, and full-stack developer infrastructure providers. Guided by Circle’s vision of making money truly open and programmable, Arc is public internet infrastructure that invites everyone to build, coordinate, and transact onchain. Start building: Read the release:

Circle

404,037 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

My conversation with Graham Weaver, the founder of Alpine Investors. Graham built this large private equity firm by buying companies and handing them over to ~27-year-old CEOs. He tells the entire story of the firm here. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 Alpine's Three North Stars 7:33 The Power of Choice & Determination 13:33 Early Career 21:45 Founding Alpine 29:36 Core Beliefs and Talent Development 35:47 Building a Platform Company 39:02 Talent and Training Programs 44:15 Employee and Customer Engagement 47:26 Financial Outcomes & Return Strategies 50:43 Supporting Young CEOs 58:13 Teaching at Stanford 1:05:31 Coaching and One-on-One Meetings 1:08:18 Executive Coaching 1:11:19 Defining Personal Growth and Courage 1:18:41 Lessons from a Slot Machine Business 1:22:43 Balancing Work and Personal Life 1:29:21 The Future of Private Equity 1:32:29 The Importance of Seeing the Best in People 1:38:10 The Kindest Thing

My conversation with Graham Weaver, the founder of Alpine Investors. Graham built this large private equity firm by buying companies and handing them over to ~27-year-old CEOs. He tells the entire story of the firm here. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 Alpine's Three North Stars 7:33 The Power of Choice & Determination 13:33 Early Career 21:45 Founding Alpine 29:36 Core Beliefs and Talent Development 35:47 Building a Platform Company 39:02 Talent and Training Programs 44:15 Employee and Customer Engagement 47:26 Financial Outcomes & Return Strategies 50:43 Supporting Young CEOs 58:13 Teaching at Stanford 1:05:31 Coaching and One-on-One Meetings 1:08:18 Executive Coaching 1:11:19 Defining Personal Growth and Courage 1:18:41 Lessons from a Slot Machine Business 1:22:43 Balancing Work and Personal Life 1:29:21 The Future of Private Equity 1:32:29 The Importance of Seeing the Best in People 1:38:10 The Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

132,664 просмотров • 1 год назад

Henry Ellenbogen has one of the best track records in growth investing, yet he has kept a notably low profile. He built his reputation at T. Rowe Price, where he ran the New Horizons Fund and turned it into one of the best-performing small-cap growth portfolios in the country. He backed more than 50 companies through IPO before leaving in 2019 to found Durable Capital. Henry believes great investing is about understanding people and change. He spent his career studying the 1% of companies that drive nearly all long-term returns, which led him to a simple philosophy: invest in small companies that can become large ones. He built Durable to uniquely support a company through its full compounding journey. A single team can invest early in private markets and continue owning businesses as they scale into durable public companies. He talks about investing in and learning directly from founders like Jeff Bezos, Reed Hastings, tobi lutke, Max Levchin, and Luis von Ahn, and watching how they adapt and rebuild as their businesses scale. He is especially drawn to "Act II" entrepreneurs, founders who have already built one company and return with sharper judgment and execution the second time. We also discuss Durable itself, which is Henry's own Act II. He explains how he has built the firm around developing talent, measuring people by how much they make others better, and his discipline of writing memos and doing multi-year lookbacks on every investment. What comes through most clearly is how much Henry loves the craft of investing, and how seriously he takes building something meant to last. Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:02 Origin of an Investment Philosophy 07:02 The "One Percent" of Stocks 13:17 Domino's 19:10 Betting on "Act Two" Teams 24:31 Building Durable Capital 34:46 Market Structure and Time Arbitrage 52:49 Adapting to Discontinuous Change 1:03:19 Physical Moats vs. Soft Moats 1:11:52 The End of Free Money 1:37:35 The Argument for Going Public 1:46:43 The "Warriors" Mindset 1:51:17 Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

868,962 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

We’re thrilled to share that Outset has raised $17M in Series A funding, led by 8VC to help companies better understand their customers. When michael hess and I founded Outset, we set out to solve a critical problem: truly understanding your customer is painfully slow, expensive, and at times, impossible. It shouldn’t be. We believed AI could change this by focusing on the human side of AI. So we built the world’s first AI-interviewer. An AI agent that asked questions, listened, and learned from real humans. By removing the barriers of traditional research and allowing companies to have deeper conversations with more customers more quickly, we could help teams infuse their products with genuine human understanding at a speed and scale previously impossible. So what was the moment we knew we were onto something? When WeightWatchers ran that first pilot back in early 2023. Participants shared incredible amounts of depth, all with the world’s first AI-interviewer. We got a call the next day from their head of research: "You built a thing. We want that thing. How do I pay you for it?" That validation has turned into explosive growth. We've doubled our revenue in just the last 4 months alone, with >50 enterprise customers like Nestlé, Microsoft, and WeightWatchers trusting us to unlock deeper customer insights. All of this built on the backs of a truly special early team with 0 employee turnover. This funding round was led by 8VC, with participation from an incredible group, including: Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company, Y Combinator / Garry Tan, Adverb Ventures /April Underwood / Jessica Verrilli ), Alt Capital / Jack Altman , Rebel Fund, Genius Ventures, Ritual Capital, and many more. So what's next? We're scaling our engineering and go-to-market teams to build the world's most powerful agentic customer research platform. All focused on one mission: helping companies better understand humans. To our customers, investors, and team - thank you for believing in this vision. Now check out the video to see Outset in action, testing the video itself with real people!

We’re thrilled to share that Outset has raised $17M in Series A funding, led by 8VC to help companies better understand their customers. When michael hess and I founded Outset, we set out to solve a critical problem: truly understanding your customer is painfully slow, expensive, and at times, impossible. It shouldn’t be. We believed AI could change this by focusing on the human side of AI. So we built the world’s first AI-interviewer. An AI agent that asked questions, listened, and learned from real humans. By removing the barriers of traditional research and allowing companies to have deeper conversations with more customers more quickly, we could help teams infuse their products with genuine human understanding at a speed and scale previously impossible. So what was the moment we knew we were onto something? When WeightWatchers ran that first pilot back in early 2023. Participants shared incredible amounts of depth, all with the world’s first AI-interviewer. We got a call the next day from their head of research: "You built a thing. We want that thing. How do I pay you for it?" That validation has turned into explosive growth. We've doubled our revenue in just the last 4 months alone, with >50 enterprise customers like Nestlé, Microsoft, and WeightWatchers trusting us to unlock deeper customer insights. All of this built on the backs of a truly special early team with 0 employee turnover. This funding round was led by 8VC, with participation from an incredible group, including: Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company, Y Combinator / Garry Tan, Adverb Ventures /April Underwood / Jessica Verrilli ), Alt Capital / Jack Altman , Rebel Fund, Genius Ventures, Ritual Capital, and many more. So what's next? We're scaling our engineering and go-to-market teams to build the world's most powerful agentic customer research platform. All focused on one mission: helping companies better understand humans. To our customers, investors, and team - thank you for believing in this vision. Now check out the video to see Outset in action, testing the video itself with real people!

Aaron Cannon

34,386 просмотров • 1 год назад