"1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

"1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

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"1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining episodes

  • 1 to 100: Clay

    This week on 1 to 100, Usman Hanif sits down with Varun Anand, Co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay. Clay is an innovative go-to-market platform that uses AI to help businesses find their target audience, enrich lead data, and automate personalized outreach. They also explore how Clay has revolutionized data aggregation, discover technical challenges and strategies for exponential growth, supported unexpected communities and "claygencies" and share the company’s future vision and hiring preferences.


    🔥 Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj


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    SPONSOR: ORACLE

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds and offers one consistent price. Oracle is offering to cut your cloud bill in half. See if your company qualifies at oracle.com/turpentine


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    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ This Won't Last

    Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel. They unpack their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, venture, investing, and politics.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast


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    LINKS:

    Clay: https://www.clay.com/

    Hiring: https://www.clay.com/careers

    Why You Should Join newsletter: https://whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com/

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    X :

    @vxanand (Varun)

    @clayrunhq (Clay)

    @usygoosy (Usman)

    @why2join (Why You Should Join)

    @turpentinemedia (Turpentine)



    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) Intro

    (01:23) Introducing Clay

    (02:03) How Clay helps businesses grow

    (04:41) Why Clay is a 10x better solution?

    (08:09) Getting creative on the platform

    (10:07) Claygent and Waterfall enrichment

    (11:14) Technical challenges and innovations

    (12:29) Power of Claygent and other AI tools

    (14:26) Building a community and ecosystem around Clay

    (20:17) From agencies to big-name customers

    (22:28) Navigating early hustles and content creation

    (25:29) Innovative use of tools and customer feedback

    (27:34) Sponsor: WorkOS

    (28:42) Founding story and team dynamics

    (31:01) Unique hiring practices and team culture

    (34:40) Future prospects and AI in sales prospecting

    (39:37) Future of Clay

    (41:30) Wrap

    43 min
  • 1 to 100: Modal Labs

    In this episode of 1 to 100, host Usman Hanif welcomes Erik Bernhardsson, founder and CEO of Modal Labs. Modal has rapidly scaled by offering high-performance, serverless GPU cloud solutions crucial for gen AI, machine learning, and data applications. The discussion covers their impressive growth, unique infrastructure advantages, and commitment to enhancing the developer experience. Bernhardsson also shares insights on building from scratch, handling cloud resource allocation, and the company's future ambitions.

    🔥 Apply to join over 400 Founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj


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    SPONSOR/S:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs. OCI has four to eight times the bandwidth of other clouds and offers one consistent price. Oracle is offering to cut your cloud bill in half. See if your company qualifies at oracle.com/turpentine


    --

    RECOMMENDED PODCAST:

    🎙️ This Won't Last

    Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel. They unpack their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, venture, investing, and politics.

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast


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    LINKS:

    Modal Labs: https://modal.com

    Hiring: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal

    Why You Should Join essay on Modal : https://whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com/p/modal


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    X :

    @bernhardsson (Erik)

    @usygoosy (Usman)

    @modal_labs (Modal)

    @why2join (Why You Should Join)

    @turpentinemedia (Turpentine)


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    TIMESTAMPS:

    (00:00) Intro

    (01:17) Overview of Modal Labs

    (02:26) Deep dive into Modal Labs' technology

    (03:39) Developer experience and infrastructure

    (07:09) Challenges and innovations in cloud computing

    (11:28) Measuring performance

    (15:07) Why do people come to Modal?

    (20:08) Sponsor: WorkOS

    (21:16) High demand for GPUs

    (24:51) Early days and business growth

    (26:59) Power of developer experience

    (29:09) Importance of onboarding and documentation

    (32:23) Challenges in developer tools

    (34:00) Insights from Spotify and Better.com

    (36:33) Hiring the right talent

    (40:48) Fundraising and investor relations

    (42:02) Insights on the team culture

    (44:42) Future of Modal

    (49:41) Wrap

    52 min

About "1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to 1 to 100, where every week Usman Hanif, the co-author of Why You Should Join, sits down with the founder of a hyper-growth company you should consider joining. Our goal is to give you the inside story behind breakout, early stage companies potentially worth betting your career on. Coming up on this season of 1 to 100, discover how the founders of Modal Labs, Clay, Mercor, and more built their products, cultures, and companies.