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Sequoia Capital· Oct 14, 2025PodcastThe Last Mile Is Where Contact-Center AI Gets RealCresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia's Doug Leone on why 17 to 20 million agents, legacy systems, and last-mile integration will decide who wins customer experience.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2025PodcastFin Climbed From 35% to 65% Resolution. Intercom Says the Models Only Did a Few PointsHost Nathan LabenzEoghan McCabe and Fergal Reid on production A/B tests, 99-cent outcome pricing, and why GPT-4 was already smart enough for most customer service.
44:49ENSequoia Capital· Sep 23, 2025PodcastCompanies Keep Asking for AI. Then They Send It Back.Agency founder Elias Torres on why businesses freeze at imperfect answers, and why his third startup aims for a billion in revenue with fewer than 100 people.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 18, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDecagon Prices AI Support by the Conversation. The Market Is Wages.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on six-figure contracts at zero ARR, 60–70% contact-center cuts, and a world where your agent calls the airline’s agent.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
31:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersElias Torres sold a billion-dollar company and called it a failure. Agency is the redo.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Drift founder wants $1 billion in revenue with 100 people, one email address, and software that works like a text to someone who actually shows up.
48:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Call Center Contact Costs $13. A Company Agent Can Do It for Under a DollarHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSierra cofounder and OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor tells No Priors why branded customer agents are shovel-ready, why RAG demos are not products, and how AI software should charge for the job done.
1:12:31ENSequoia Capital· Aug 27, 2024PodcastA Bare Model Closes 35% of Airline Changes. Sierra's Agents Clear 70% of Real Tickets.Clay Bavor on why putting a raw LLM in front of customers does not math, and how AgentOS, supervisor agents, and outcome pricing change the arithmetic.
51:36ENSequoia Capital· Jul 23, 2024PodcastKlarna's AI Took 700 Customer-Service Jobs. The Secret Was the ManualCEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski tells Sequoia how an OpenAI guinea-pig bet, a dispute-queue Slack message, and documentation written for an amnesiac employee produced $40 million of profit.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Mar 6, 2024PodcastA Broken Belt Buckle Turned Gucci's Call Center Into a Sales FloorHost Jacob EffronSalesforce AI CEO Clara Shih on Service GPT, Einstein Copilot, and why trust—not cost—is the real bar to enterprise scale.
27:14ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 7, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSeven People Did the Work of 700. Salesforce's AI Chief Says Enterprise AI Is Still in the Second InningHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilClara Shih tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil why Salesforce built a shared LLM platform, why data cleanup beats model shopping, and why AI is becoming the enterprise UI.
57:08ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastShipping Finn: Intercom's Product Playbook for the ChatGPT EraHost Jacob EffronDes Traynor explains how Intercom pivoted to AI, shipped Finn, built guardrails, and turned customer support into a product lab for LLMs.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBack From the Brink: How Intercom's Founder Rebuilt a Stalled SaaS Company Around the Fin AI AgentGuest Eoghan McCabe · Host Lenny RachitskyIntercom CEO Eoghan McCabe describes the strategy, pricing, culture and personal changes behind turning a plateauing SaaS business into an AI-agent company.