Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2017

At SaaStr earlier this year, I spoke about the huge potential of machine learning in SaaS. During a recent interview , Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher spoke about the importance of workflows. Only by nailing the workflow will a user grant you the time and permission to wow them with machine learning.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

Organize for parallel execution : Create business units with entrepreneurial leaders who can run individual products relatively independently.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 21, 2023

is a pioneering weekly podcast that pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence in content creation. is a pioneering weekly podcast that pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence in content creation. is a pioneering weekly podcast that pushes the boundaries of artificial intelligence in content creation.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 4, 2016

The Future of Machine Intelligence is a free collection of 10 interviews machine learning experts filed by David Beyer. The interviews explain exactly where we are with the state-of-the-art, the challenges to advanced machine learning, and some of the applications.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2021

The tech involves cameras and devices that detect evidence, decode it with machine learning and deliver it into the right hands. When Garrett interviewed Alex, his challenge was to hire 30 reps within the first 30 days. Do many, many interview rounds. It solves 30-40 crimes an hour nationwide.

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IT World

MAY 2, 2023

IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries. Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validate the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. While there’s no need to grill candidates with overly technical questions at your next product manager interview, favoring applicants with an innate product sense is only logical.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2023

I study them, benchmark them, analyze them, interview their leaders to understand their mechanics & share what I’ve learned on this blog. Machine Learning as a Force Multiplier : There are four types of machine learning: classification, prediction, interpretation, & generation.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2021

So, with that in mind I’d like to share a compilation of some of my favorite guests, hosts, and interviews from my time here. When we released Resolution Bot early last year, we recorded this fascinating conversation between our co-founder Ciaran Lee and our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Some companies have a recruiting team and a separate talent sourcing team to identify candidates for initial phone interviews, while others have hiring managers in charge of the end-to-end talent acquisition process. Like customer acquisition, talent acquisition is focused on recruiting. Stage 2: Employee Onboarding . Phase 1: Hiring .

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

As a startup, most people who come to an interview appear happy. You interview 30 people. If it’s a role you’ve never hired, find someone great at it and have them do your final interview. How Do You Sift Out the Bitter and Broken Individuals When Hiring? How do you spot the ones who are burnt out?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Interview with Little Otter CEO Rebecca Egger. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. ” For example, my mom has done some of the only studies on artificial intelligence to diagnose and identify autism in young children. Caught your interest?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2021

I was expecting questions a candidate might be asked in a consulting interview. His idea of back of the envelope is a geometric equation, modeling explosive behavior that exists in many parts of nature and business. He concludes with a debate on intelligent machines and machine learning.

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IT World

MARCH 30, 2023

Organizations are rapidly adopting the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for the discovery, screening, interviewing, and hiring of candidates. It can reduce time and work needed to find job candidates and it can more accurately match applicant skills to a job opening.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

MaestroQA can trace its origins back to Prathipati’s professor at Penn State, who wrote a paper about using machine learning algorithms to analyze website data to predict certain actions. When I interview a first-time founder, they talk about the product. Result: Low pipeline generation.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

It involves using modern technology, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing, to understand the emotional undertone behind a body of text. Running user interviews. User Interview. Sentiment analysis helps determine customer sentiment with accuracy.

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Baremetrics

MAY 9, 2018

Heck, it’s one of the first questions I ask during the interview process when hiring. And Fried, one of our Backend Engineers, loves machine learning and AI. So much so, that in his spare time he’s completed both Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence degrees! Machine Learning.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

One company cited saving ~$6 for each call served by their LLM-powered customer service—for a total of ~90% cost savings—as a reason to increase their investment in genAI eightfold. Here’s the overall breakdown of how orgs are allocating their LLM spend: 3. Cloud is still highly influential in model purchasing decisions.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for media let you create content at scale in a previously impossible way and you don’t even need design experience to create something impressive. AI is a broad term used to describe a machine that can perform human intelligence processes. AI isn’t new. Getting Started with Podcastle.

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User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing how SaaS product teams work by increasing efficiency and productivity, reducing costs, and most importantly, facilitating data-driven decision-making. TL;DR Customer insights AI are insights generated from user behavior data and feedback by AI and machine learning tools.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 22, 2023

A slate of writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have recently made headlines as a new and more effective way to produce content. The next morning, I was scheduled to have an interview with a TikToker about brand deals , and was able to generate a list of ten thoughtful questions in seconds with AI.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

Any one employee, and you’re required to have at least three interviews, can say no and there’s no exceptions asked. What we’re learning though in the business of digital workers, that what we do is that we’re actually becoming the fastest path to AI, so there’s an exposed API.

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IT World

JANUARY 12, 2023

Amid a recent spate of high-profile layoffs and a recognition many companies rushed to hire to fill pandemic-driven business needs, organizations are now refocusing on quality of hiring — and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to aid in those efforts.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2022

You can conduct user interviews and start the Voice of the Customer (VoC) program to understand customer attitudes in detail toward your product. Self-service support with plenty of learning resources. As there are different emotions, different customer sentiment analysis models are required to deal with them. Intent analysis.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Apart from customer interviews and in-app surveys , they will have to rely even more heavily on user behavior analytics to identify customer needs accurately. 92% of PMs interviewed for the recent Airfocus report believe that AI will have a long-lasting effect on their work. Funnel analysis in Userpilot.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

Below, you’ll find a collection of articles and interviews that tease out the dynamics of ecosystems, platforms and partnerships. In this fascinating interview with our Director of Content John Collins, the head of Salesforce Incubator Mike Kreaden gives a deep dive on the evolution of one of the most successful platforms in SaaS. ?

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

As you advance to this position, you can also choose to transition into a data analyst or BI consultant role depending on your interest: Data Scientist : If you’re passionate about statistics, machine learning, and predictive modeling, you may transition into a data scientist role.

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Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Seeing people transcribing interviews, speeches and news conferences in the 21st century the same archaic way journalists did in the 1970s, he realized that artificial intelligence (A.I.) and speech-to-text could do the heavy lifting of transcription.

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Trint

JANUARY 28, 2021

When transcribing recordings of confidential meetings like interviews with customers or potential employees, you need to know the software will protect your sensitive data in line with data protection laws. And how do you know which software platforms are up to the task of keeping that data safe? Secure transcription software you can trust?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2019

2: AI & machine learning will become more than just a buzzword. We’ve become used to rolling our eyes whenever we see the term “artificial intelligence,” and it’s a shame. The post 6 Sales Tech Trends to Watch in 2020 (Based on Interviews with 250+ Vendors) appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 4, 2019

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a technological breakthrough with potential applications for nearly every industry. The concept of unconscious bias — learned behaviors and reinforced stereotypes that can unintentionally influence behavior — has been a barrier to entry for many people in the past.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It features exclusive interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, academics, industry insiders, and former Facebook employees, including one-time Facebook executive Tim Kendall. It explores the future of humanity as AI surpasses human intelligence and how it will change everything, including our identity, relationships, and work.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z’s Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI’s first use case: AI friends. [00:39] So to kick off this session, we thought it would be fun to interview you and the Character.AI Noam Shazeer, Character.ai

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And in today’s day and age, with artificial intelligence and natural language processing and image processing, our technology can do show much more now than it ever has been able to before. But when you don’t have a lot of data, that puts a lot more emphasis on the heuristics or on the intelligence of the algorithms.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

2023 will be a breakout year for digital Customer Success, customer intelligence, and AI-fueled outcomes at SaaS companies. As more mundane tasks are automated by machine learning and AI, people have increasingly more time to devote to developing relationships with customers. Joel Passen , co-founder, Sturdy.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

They hire a VP of Sales who doesn’t want to sell or learn the product. Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. If you go head-to-head with a competitor whose VP of Sales knows the product cold, you’ll lose every deal.

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