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20VC Assertion Supported
Flanagan: ChatGPT scrapes 1,500 web pages for every single referral visit
“Six months ago, it was 250 pieces of content scraped, and they give you one visit back. Today, it's 1500 pieces of content scraped, and they give you one visit back.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 26:31 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
20VC Prediction Held up
Flanagan: AI agents will be priced against human labor costs
“Yes. I think we're going to price agents against human labor costs, outcomes.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 15:16 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Flanagan: HubSpot's AI chat agent is booking meetings and closing sales
“We have an AI chat agent that is able to sell now. It's booked in meetings. It's doing sales.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 17:28 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Flanagan: AI Overviews now appear in over 35% of Google searches
“That's on over, like, 35% of all searches today have some sort of AI overviews experience, and so that's rolling out much more rapidly.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 26:00 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Flanagan: Viral AI gorilla ad booked LA dentist for years
“And there's a dental practitioner in the LA who created this kind of looked like a vlog of a gorilla doing a parachute jump, losing his teeth, and then go into his practice to get them fixed. And it went viral. And he apparently booked up his dental practice f…”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 37:01 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
20VC Assertion Supported
Flanagan: Quora citations in Google AI Overviews have drastically increased
“The real winner of AI search so far is like Quora. Quora is actually, you know, Their number of citations are seen in Google AI overviews has drastically increased because what I said was there's many ways to ask these questions now and AI wants all of that da…”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 55:01 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Flanagan: Organic click-through rates and traffic from Google search are declining
“And there are lots of examples of the click through rate decrease in and the amount of traffic you get from Google search pages.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 21, 2023 ▶ 3:19 Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Kieran Flanagan: Genius.com outranked competitors using pre-PMF annotation features
“One of my favorite examples is Genius.com, right? Used to be Rap Genius back in the day when there were large lyric sites. Now, when you were building another lyric site, there was already well-established lyric sites. Like, how do you differentiate in that? B…”
Kieran Flanagan Nov 25, 2022 ▶ 17:39 20VC: When to Make Your First Growth Hire? Senior or Junior? How To Onboard Them? How To Monitor Their Progress? from Growth Leaders @ Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Instacart, Miro and more
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