Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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18 published records
01 / uncertainty
“Jason, I don't know if you know this, but you're the perfect podcast guest because you have such deep experience in the space that you just have answers to everything I ask.”
02 / commitment
“Don't just like, "We have software, go try using it." It's like we will have someone on our team helping you figure this out and maybe there's not even software yet to do all these things, but we'll have them do it for you.”
03 / evaluation
“Then all these playbooks that she's used over the last 20 years in growth just don't work anymore at AI companies.”
04 / belief
“" I don't have the perfect answer to this one, but I think be honest about it, be honest that for the best people, it will make them more productive.”
05 / commitment
“The mediocre are just going to be more mediocre. So I think the AE is what we will always have salespeople, but being a people person is not enough anymore.”
06 / belief
“We needed help. And so that's what I learned is, you have this partner, the FDE and the vendor, and a lot of them actually might not take your business if they don't think they can help you.”
07 / belief
“I'm being facetious in the sense that people say that I think have weaker relationships with customers.”
08 / belief
“I think what might be helpful here actually is to do a tour, kind of a quick tour of the agents that you've built and what they do, which ones have been most impactful.”
09 / evaluation
“The net productivity is about the same. It's not better, it's not worse, but it's so much more efficient and it scales because software scales.”
10 / evaluation
“I think Palantir is obviously the single most successful public B2B company at the moment.”
11 / commitment
“I think today, and listen, if we get together in 18 months, we'll update this because the world's changing so fast.”
12 / evaluation
“Not only is it magical, I mean, great, you can do a prompt and build a crappy app that doesn't work.”
13 / commitment
“I literally, just when I was in London, I built a whole app where you can practice selling Harvey, Cursor, Replit, and ChatGPT Enterprise, and it works.”
14 / prediction
“I don't think most of the startups you and I work with and most of the folks listen to this do not close the majority of their revenue with cold human cold calls.”
15 / evaluation
“I mean, AI has led to some layoffs, but even though most of the ones we read, it's just a justification to do layoffs.”
16 / prediction
“Net net, we're going to need more sales and go-to-market professionals than ever because the winners are growing so quickly that even if they're more efficient, they will need more human beings than ever.”
17 / prediction
“" Even if it doesn't quite work. And I knew from this Delphi, this general agent that it would sort of work because going into annual, this general agent, this Digital Jason closed a 70K sponsorship on its own.”
18 / recommendation
“I used Delphi. I instantly broke it because I had too much data to ingest.”