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Cannon: People share things with AI they won't share with humans
“But people actually share things with AI that they won't share with the person.”
Cannon: Traditional surveys yield lowest quality customer data
“What we have is surveys, which are, you know, there are billions of surveys done a year, and they are the lowest quality data you could imagine.”
Cannon: Synthetic research will exist side-by-side with human research
“I don't know if it's overhyped, but it is definitely going to be a kind of side by side with human research. Like, humans are extremely weird creatures, and we evolve quickly, and we change our minds, and there's things that are hot and then not hot. Like, I t…”
Outset maintains over 80% offer acceptance, beating multimillion-dollar lab packages
“We have a more than 80% acceptance rate of our offers. And these include, like, we've beaten labs with multi-million dollar packages.”
Cannon: Fortune 500s still base major decisions on manual interview summaries
“We'd be delivering this to some fortune 500 company that would have to make multi-billion dollar decisions based on me reading the transcript four times and pulling out some good clips and notes. And like that's a, that is a hard thing to do. And they're doing…”
Cannon: AI interviews have much lower fatigue rates than surveys
“But the reality is, this has much lower fatigue rates than surveys. So, meaning that people will go for an hour And they won't drop off.”
Cannon: AI Will Push User Researchers into an Infrastructure and Methodology Barbell
“What we see is that future of researchers is certainly different. They're not doing as much of the pure execution, but I kind of see like the barbell where they're either Like playing a big role in infrastructure. They're like laying the pipes for the entire c…”
Cannon: Do not put AI between companies and high-touch customer relationships
“The answer is, like, if you are, want to have a relationship with that person, then have a relationship with that person, right? Don't, like, put AI between you and somebody you want to have a relationship with.”
Outset grew revenue 8x in the previous year, says Aaron Cannon
“We ADEX'd last year the trajectory continues to be exponential, which is obviously an insane experience, right?”
Cannon: Outset abandons standard engineering pods for two-week project swarms
“And so, like, you know, we, for example, we, we've got, you know, more than 25 engineers. Like, historically, you put them into pods, and those pods are very structured, and they're focused on different things, and they're, like, suddenly you've got this kind …”