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1 to 100: Clay Aug 28, 2024

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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.

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

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

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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

1 to 100: Modal Labs Aug 20, 2024

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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.

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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

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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