Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I did a story some time ago on a company called DiscoverOrg. They were mapping out the org charts inside of organizations to sell to sales organizations. They have since been acquired by ZoomInfo. As you are talking, I am thinking that that kind of data layered onto what you are doing would

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How many were you able to get to start building out your model? Oleg Rogynskyy: Graduating from Y Combinator helped us become very successful. We managed to get from Zero to 100 POC customers in the first 90 days. This was when we were in the Y Combinator. We got 100 companies on

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You are doing this out of what geography? It’s no longer Montreal, right? Oleg Rogynskyy: I’m in Menlo Park right now.  Sramana Mitra: You are in Menlo Park. Wow, I am in Menlo Park too. What part of Menlo Park are you in? Oleg Rogynskyy: I used to live near downtown, but now

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Filing has always been a big problem with CRM. Salespeople don’t like to log their communication, so you are automating that.  Oleg Rogynskyy: Yes, we are doing that with superhuman decisions. It turns out that the most predictive feature of activity data that leads to success of the activity or deal closing or

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What problem did you decide to go after with all this technology understanding? Oleg Rogynskyy: We observed that most of the sales leaders at the time didn’t really know what their teams were doing. They didn’t know how to coach their sales team to better perform and have higher productivity without any data

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526th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Oleg Rogynskyy, People.ai

Oleg Rogynskyy is Founder CEO of People.ai. This is a fantastic discussion on how to cold start an AI company, build it to scale, etc. Also, excellent guidance on white spaces around which to build new AI companies.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder CEO of People.ai (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. This is a fantastic discussion on how to cold start an AI company, build it to scale, etc. Also, excellent guidance on white spaces around which to build new AI companies. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself. Tell us a

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