Building AI Sales from Scratch: Work in Progress – with Gianna Lengyel, Head of Business Development at Mistral AI
In this episode of Work in Progress, hosts Paula Wehmeyer, Partner at General Catalyst, and Helena Meyer-Schönherr, Managing Director at Ten More In, sit down with Gianna Maria Lengyel, Head of Business Development at Mistral AI, one of Europe’s fastest-growing foundation model companies.
Gianna shares how she went from consulting and fintech to joining Mistral as one of the first non-technical hires, where she built the company’s sales motion from the ground up. She discusses the challenges of selling large language models (LLMs) to both enterprise and tech-savvy startups, and why working in…
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