Everything Melisa Tokmak said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Tokmak: Gen Z job candidates obsess over a permanent underclass mentality
“I see, especially Gen Z in these days when I'm, you know, looking at hiring, obsessed with this permanent underclass mentality. If I don't make my money in the next 18 months, or if I don't learn everything in the world in the next six months, then I am foreve…”
Tokmak: Majority of Tech Companies Only Serve Startups and Tech
“All of us come here and we talk about tech, we talk about creating impact, but majority of the companies that only really serve other startups or tech companies.”
Tokmak: Software built inside AI roll-ups cannot scale beyond acquired companies
“There's a lot of successful rollups and tech enabled rollups, but at the end, all the products you're building are for the company you just bought. It can't really be actually applied to any other company.”
Tokmak: Real-world service robotics requires impossible building standardization to succeed
“If robotics is going to do what we're doing with these companies today, every single of those buildings need to be either three D printed or completely like standardized. I don't see that happening.”
Tokmak: Netic does not view frontier AI foundation models as competitive risks
“For NETIC's case, I don't see them as a competitive risk.”
Tokmak: Netic has generated over $600M in customer revenue from AI interactions
“We have made so far, I think over six hundred million dollars for our customers that have been really generated from AI handled interactions.”
Tokmak: Most people will still avoid taking initiative despite AI tools
“It ends up, it stays with the choice you have to make. We keep making it easy and easier, easier and easier to make that choice. But still, I guarantee you majority of the world will not be making that choice.”
Tokmak: Over 70% of Netic's enterprise customers use AI-first interactions
“Today actually over 70% of our customers are AI first. We call it Netic first. They go N-one and over 70% actually all of their customers' first interaction with the company is with Netic agents.”
Tokmak: Essential service enterprises avoid vendors that rapidly kill products like OpenAI
“OpenAI builds amazing products really fast, but also it kills them really fast. So I don't think enterprises are at least enterprise in these industries looking for that really fast”
Tokmak: Palantir, SpaceX, and Notion struggled to maintain talent density while scaling
“Every single company that I know, that I respect that even thought about these things for the long term, like imagine Palantir or SpaceX or Notion who really care about craftsmanship and really delivering for their audience for many, many years have struggled …”
Tokmak: Netic closed a $500k enterprise contract in 14 days
“For example, to give you a sense, you know, like just one of the businesses we close, it can be like a half a million contract. And it took from end to end, 14 days.”