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20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
Jesse Zhang is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Decagon, the conversational AI platform for customer experience. As one of the fastest growing companies in the valley, they have raised over $230M at a last round price of $1.5BN. Prior to Decagon, Jesse founded Lowkey (acquired by Niantic), studied CS at Harvard, and worked at places like Google, HRT, Citadel, and Intel.
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00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Messages
03:43 Olympiad Mathematician to Startup Founder
05:34 Selling to Niantic and What I Did Differently the Second Time
07:16 Why 90% of Founders Build Companies the Wrong Way
12:19 Scaling…
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