Jason Ambrose
Chief Executive Officer, Backstory. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jason Ambrose is the CEO of Backstory, formerly known as People.ai, leading its focus as an AI revenue platform. With over two decades in enterprise software, he previously held leadership and advisory roles at organizations including McKinsey & Company and Appirio.
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Everything Jason Ambrose said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ambrose: Thin LLM wrappers around workflows cannot build sustainable businesses
“The world of, I'm going to take an LLM, I'm going to wrap it around some particular workflow or use case and think that builds a business. I mean, we, we've pretty much seen in the market that that's, there's not a lot of belief in that, right?”
Ambrose: Avoid PIP theater when an employee is clearly not working out
“If you've given people the markers and you said, this is what we need out of the job, and they're not getting through it, move quickly, right? It's not working. Let's not go through the theater saying, like, we're going to do a performance plan when you know i…”
Ambrose: Dumping raw emails into ChatGPT fails without structured enterprise context
“So you can take all your emails, you can dump that into chat TPT, and it's really not going to be very good at, Figuring out that information, right? But if you think about pairing that with your structured information of like, what's a transaction, right? Who…”
Ambrose: Human-in-the-loop oversight will persist in enterprise software for a long time
“I like, so I think it's a long time before human in the loop goes away. I think maybe there are some edge cases where this works.”
Ambrose: Prompt-generated SaaS cannot serve complex enterprises like Red Hat
“You know, you see this content, like, oh, I built a SaaS company and, you know, Three hours with four prompts. Like, that's just not gonna make it in a place like Red Hat, right?”
Ambrose: Founders must be prepared to walk away from unreasonable enterprise clients
“There's a line that that customer crosses where you say, this just isn't worth it for what I'm trying to do with the business. And you have to be able to say no with conviction, right? No, if a, this might be the end of this relationship and conversation. If y…”
Ambrose: People.ai customers include OpenAI, NVIDIA, and AMD
“We have customers across the whole spectrum a lot, actually, in the AI space, so, you know, OpenAI, NVIDIA AMD, some others, all the way down to and Iron Mountain.”
Ambrose: People.ai AI is trained on nine years and billions of transactions
“So nine years, billions of transactions, right? We, the AI has seen all different flavors of, you know, when a customer says X, Y, or Z, when does that actually mean the deal is on or the deal is off?”
Ambrose: Filtering private data out of AI is as important as context
“We sometimes think about
All of the information and building more context versus what do we take out, which is just as important.”
Ambrose: Founder tapped him as CEO to join the Ukrainian government
“I started working with Oleg, our founder on, you know, strategy, and we were just working through what do we do with this business because I had a lot of experience with CRM, and that just became a natural discussion and progression as he had this amazing oppo…”
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