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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…”
Braintrust operates with only one company-wide meeting per week
“Like, we don't have, we have one meeting per week as a company, and that's it.”
Braintrust deliberately excluded traditional enterprises early to focus on product engineers
“We say our product is for product engineering teams that are trying to incorporate AI into their core products and services. And that description excludes and excluded a lot of, ah, sort of traditional enterprises, for example, early on, and we were okay with …”
Goyal cuts off all meetings at noon to protect afternoon focus
“So I cut off meetings at noon every day. I don't take any meetings afternoon.”
Goyal has worked every weekend since joining the MemSQL founding team
“I work every weekend. And I have since I joined MemSQL.”
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…”