Andrew Warner (host of Mixergy) and Jon Cheney discuss the commercial potential of specialized enterprise AI implementation agencies versus standalone software.
Opinion
Warner: Pulsia's automated tweets are generic and receive no engagement
“Yeah, I, to be honest with you, the tweets that come out of your account are not very good.
They're kind of generic.
No one's engaging with them.”
Assertion Supported
Warner: Zapier is actively building marketing motions targeting AI agents
“I just talked with Wade, the founder of Zapier, he's got people in his company now who are mark, who are building marketing motions to sell to agents, and it's phenomenal, and it's going well”
Assertion Supported
Warner: Zapier's founder automates employee meeting feedback based on management books
“Wade, the founder, likes the, what is it, the five dysfunctions of an organization, of a team. I forget the name of the book. Anyway, he likes it so much that that, at the end of each internal meeting, Everyone's individual contribution to the meeting gets ana…”
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Warner: AI agency StealthX closes $80,000 engagements from how-to trainings
“This is a company called StealthX.co. He's closing, I think, 80,000 dollar deals, engagements, after one of these types of how-to things.”
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Warner: Most people in 2014 do not know how to access podcasts
“Go through the streets of San Francisco, ask someone to show you how they install a podcast on their phone. Most people don't freaking understand what it is. Yes, there are programs like Stitcher that make it more accessible. Ask someone about Stitcher, and th…”
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Warner secured over $1M in ad checks from one sponsor
“The first check from them was over 300,000 dollars. I still have a copy of it somewhere, and then afterwards they did check, they sent us checks for over a million dollars in ads”