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Weitzman: Sierra relies on third-party models and Bret Taylor's go-to-market
“Sierra doesn't have their own model team. They use other people's models, right? Because the value of Sierra is the go to market. It's Brett Taylor.”
Sierra gives engineering candidates $150 in tokens for AI-native interviews
“We completely changed our engineering interview process. So it now looks much more like, here's a very here's a kind of prompt think through an application you would like to build. Cool. Okay. Here's a 150 dollars to spend on choose your coding agent. You can …”
Sierra Has Converted 100% of Its Paid Proof-of-Concept Clients
“I will knock on wood right now. We're batting a thousand on our proof of concepts.”
Taylor: Sierra customers already use AI agents for sales and churn management
“Our customers already are using it for revenue generation, sales subscription churn management for subscription services, things like that.”
Bavor: 50% of Sierra's enterprise customers generate over $1B revenue
“We work with 40% of the fortune 50. We have 50% of our customers doing over a billion in revenue. We have 30% doing over ten billion in revenue.”
Sierra's AI Agent Can Trigger SiriusXM Satellite Signal Resets for Cars
“If you're a serious XM customer, not only can we tell you what station shade 45 hip hop music is playing on, But we can also, if your radio stops working in your car, our agent will call the satellite and resend the encryption keys back to your car to get your…”
Sierra Built Verticalized Sales Teams Unusually Early in Its Startup Journey
“Most companies wait until they get more scale and more maturity. At Sierra, we made the decision to do it early because we know those are the industries where we can make the most impact, and we really want to show up right in those industries by understanding…”
Bret Taylor only pitched Benchmark's Peter Fenton when fundraising for Sierra
“So when we started the company, I just called Peter Fenton, who I've worked with twice before. He's the only person I talked to.”
Sierra expects to scale from hundreds of millions to billions of interactions
“We will in short order be in a way, one of the larger B to C companies. We're doing that via our customers, but you know, we'll, we'll, we're serving hundreds of millions of interactions, right? Soon billions of interactions.”