Everything Nima Ghamsari said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ghamsari: The 2030s will be the greatest economic boom in a century
“I think that the economy in the, I think the 20 thirties are going to be the most, it's going to be the most booming decade in a hundred years. It's going to be one of those decades where there's so much opportunity created by all the new things that we can't …”
Ghamsari: Palantir prioritizes customer outcomes over software polish and APIs
“Everyone talks about companies and software companies being success oriented, but not in the same, people don't understand what success oriented is until you go and you see how Palantir approaches success orientation, where it's like the customer's outcomes, t…”
Ghamsari: Hiring corporate 'AI czars' is a joke
“And, you know, but I don't think, I think companies that hire AI czars, like kind of a joke, to be honest. Either it's run like that top down or it's not.”
Lonsdale and Karp banned Ghamsari's Aston Martin from Palantir office
“You and Carp made me not bring it to the office. Cause you thought it didn't reflect well on the culture of Palantir.”
Ghamsari: Blend generated $10M pipeline for Autopilot in one month
“From just the early pipe, we have about ten million of early pipeline for Autopilot. We only priced it this past month in April and started our sales keep actually talking to customers who have turned it on. We already have double digit 1,000,010 plus million …”
Top Blend engineers submit 80 to 120 pull requests monthly using AI
“The best people are doing 80 to a 120 pull requests a month. And there's still a lot of people who are learning how to use these AI tools.”
Ghamsari made $150K playing online poker his first semester at Stanford
“By December, I had already made like a 150 grand paying, playing poker.”
Ghamsari: Blend processes roughly 20% of all US mortgages
“There's about four to five million mortgages happening this year, and Blend is about 20% of those. Maybe just under 20% of those.”
Ghamsari: Blend overexpanded by concurrently pursuing title, insurance, and verification
“I got us into too many pies at once. Instead of saying, this is our bet. This is what we're going to go all in on. And we were, we had bought, we had acquired a title company. We had started a home insurance agency. We had been doing, we'd expanded too many pr…”
Ghamsari: Blend generated roughly $120M last year with 10% projected growth
“Yeah, we did in the, you know, in the, you know, like the high one tens, one twenties range last year, and we'll be, you know, growing roughly, call it, we, there's nothing public that we've shared here, but the analysts have us growing at roughly 10 ish perce…”
First Blend Autopilot customer cut mortgage closing from 29 to 21 days
“One of the first customers that roll out autopilot, we did an analysis with them of how it impacted their operations. They took their mortgage closing process, which includes a lot of things in blend and some things out of blend, like the appraisal took it dow…”
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