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Investors' Principles of Silicon Valley Taught in Stanford MBA | Ilya Strebulaev
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Eléonore Crespo is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, an AI performance management platform that brings a company's finance, supply chain, HR, and sales data into one place so teams can make the best possible decisions. Since the beginning of the journey, Pigment has raised over $400 million, is growing 2x year over year, and counts companies like Figma, Brex, and Anthropic among its customers.
Before founding Pigment, Eléonore worked for the CFO of Google and Alphabet, where she was stunned to find that one of the most innovative companies on the planet was running its strategic planning on Google Spreadsheets. If Google was getting it wrong, she figured thousands of other companies were too. That realization became Pigment.
In this interview, Eléonore opens up about:
1. Why even Google, with all its resources, planned its business on spreadsheets, and why Excel will never scale for companies like Coca-Cola with billions of rows of data
2. The decision to "climb Mount Everest" by building a full enterprise platform from day one, instead of shipping a single feature against legacy giants that have been around for 30 years
3. Why "enterprise ready" is a lie most founders tell themselves, and how a Paris startup with zero US brand awareness won over its first American customers
4. The trust playbook behind Pigment's growth: getting the most respected companies in the world to publicly vouch for you so everyone else follows
5. Her hiring philosophy, from borrowing instant credibility by hiring people from the ecosystem, to the case study and background check that actually reveal who a person is
Watch to see why Eléonore believes every hiring mistake quietly lowers the bar across your entire company, and why she says taking the hardest route is often what creates your biggest advantage over time.
00:00 Intro
00:45 What is Pigment?
01:17 Even the Most Innovative Companies Got It Wrong
04:38 The Hard Path is The Fast Path
06:13 Why Enterprise Sales is Harder than Founders Think
08:39 Your Team is the Deck
10:37 The Two Hiring Stages that Reveal Everything
#pigment #startup #siliconvalley
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"Shakespeare never left a voice note. That's the problem Sam Liang has spent 10 years solving."
Sam Liang, Co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai, started in 2016 when recording a meeting felt invasive and sharing notes felt strange. He had a PhD from Stanford, and a belief that most people thought was wrong: voice would become the primary interface for business intelligence.
He built his own speech recognition from scratch instead of using third-party APIs. He watched competitors come and go.
Today, Otter.ai has 35 million users and $100M ARR. Here's what he got right about voice AI before anyone else did and why he thinks 95% of the world is still just getting started.
00:00 Intro
01:24 The Bet Nobody Believed In
03:54 Why He Refused to Use Third-Party APIs
06:01 The Next Interface Isn't a Screen
🔗 Read the full transcription of Sam’s interview: https://www.eomag.io/article/otter-ai-sam-liang?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description
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How a World Cup soccer player built a $600 million shoe brand | Allbirds
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Before You Blitzscale, Check This #shorts #startup
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Stop using AI in school
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Google's First PM: The 10X Principle That Built Google #shortsEO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities.Follow the podcast & turn on notifications for new episodes.EO Socials:Twitter twitter.com/eostudi0LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/eo-studioOfficial Website eostudio.ioEO School welcome.eostudio.ioDisclaimer: This fan-made podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by EO. All content rights and trademarks belong to EO. If you represent EO and have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
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A Learning App Tutors 10 Million Children Worldwide | Enuma
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What it takes to raise $5.5M from nothingㅣBusiness Canvas team documentary
00:00 Intro
Until this day, Business Canvas remains one of the fastestgrowing startups in Korea. Dive deeper and see how the team has developed a unique culture of hard work, ownership, and innovation.
Typed Documentary: https://youtu.be/FlXabvE7zU
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Your Engineering Exists to Break Humanity’s Limits | Radical AI, Joseph F. Krause
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