Ankur Goyal
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Jul 24, 2025
Requiring 40-to-50-person startup teams to work weekends is very challenging
“I think personally, my perspective is even if you're trying to hire like a pretty good, well-rounded and, you know, skilled group of people that's even, you know, 40 or 50 people, it's very challenging to get everyone to work on weekends. And so we don't, that…”
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Jul 24, 2025 positive
Braintrust built a terrible go-to-market motion to test product strength
“I wanted at Braintrust to, again, in the spirit of skepticism, Build a terrible go-to-market motion early on, but make the product, make Braintrust only successful if the product was so good that despite being grossly incompetent at selling and marketing our p…”
Jul 24, 2025
Pre-PMF startups must hire salespeople accustomed to working without PMF
“A classic example of this is when companies hire salespeople from extremely successful product-led companies, and they expect the salesperson to be good for their product-led company that does not have product market fit. That is not the right You actually wan…”
Jul 24, 2025 neutral
Impira reached millions in ARR without repeatable customer use cases
“We had a few million dollars in ARR, but very little repeatability across what they were doing. So when we tried to bring on a sales team and scale that what they were selling and their ability to scale the success from those early users into the end plus firs…”
Jul 24, 2025 negative
Early AI teams preferred managed evals over brittle open-source tools
“We actually heard early on from people and allergic, no reaction to that. They were like, Hey, we were using open source stuff and it's super brittle and it breaks all the time. And we just evals suck and observability sucks and we just don't want to deal with…”