Kiriti Badam: preference

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…That reminds me, I just had Jason Lemkit on the podcast. He's very smart on sales, go to market, run Saster, and he replaced his whole sales team with agents. He had 10 salespeople and then he was 1.2 and 20 agents. And one of the agents, it was just tracking everyone's updates to Salesforce and kind of updating it automatically for them based on their calls. And one of the salespeople was like, "Okay, I quit." And it turned out he wasn't really doing anything. He was just sitting around and he's like, "Okay, this will catch me. I got to get out of here. So to your point about, it'll be harder to sit around and twiddle your thumbs, I think is really right. Yeah. I think to add on to that, I feel like persistence is also something that is extremely valuable, especially given that anybody who wants to build something, the information is at your fingertips even more than the past decade. You can learn anything overnight and become that sort of Ironman kind of approach. So I feel like having that persistence and going through the pain of learning this, implementing this and understanding what works and what doesn't work. And as you are going through this pain of developing multiple approaches and then solving the problem, I feel that is going to be the real moat as an individual. I like to call it pain is the new moat, but I feel that is exactly super useful to actually have this in, especially in building these AI products. Say more about this. I love this concept. Pain is the new moat. Is there more there?…

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