Ben Scharfstein

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2025 by Ben Scharfstein · across every show →

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Aug 26, 2025 positive
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Scharfstein: Forward-deployed engineering roles are a factory for founders
“I think it's like a factory for founders, whether or not it's in the product role or it's in the Ford deployed engineering role or AI role, because these are people that are just doing customer discovery while they're building, which is like what being a found…”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 31:30 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025 positive
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Scharfstein: Spending 3 days on-site accelerates enterprise AI delivery by 3 weeks
“Sitting with the customer, you know, flying to six hours away and saying, I'm going to spend three days with you is invaluable. Speeds you up three weeks.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 32:22 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025
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Scharfstein: Enterprise AI delay is caused by integration and UX, not models
“And I think the interesting thing is it's not because of model capabilities. It's because of change management and it's because of integrations, oftentimes with data and also just kind of understanding like what is the UX? What's the paradigm? The security, al…”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 3:22 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025
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Ben Scharfstein says enterprise AI lags public state-of-the-art by 18 months
“And I would say it was probably like an 18 month lag between what you see on Twitter and what's the state of the art and what is actually working in enterprises.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 3:14 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
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Scharfstein: Difficult 10x engineers belong on platform teams, not client teams
“That's like very hard to work with, but they're a 10 X engineer. Those people should be on your platform team and not on your forward deploy team.”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 30:28 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
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Scale AI's Ben Scharfstein: AI startups must avoid vanity revenue metrics when delivering services
“One is I think you just have to be very honest and very sober about your revenue when you do that. And you say, Hey, like we were able to chart, get to ten million dollars in revenue, but it's, Consulting-ish revenue. Our repeatable aspect is two million, and …”
Ben Scharfstein Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 41:03 How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
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