Elias Torres

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2024 by Elias Torres · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Dec 19, 2024
Disclosure
Torres: No one joins Agency without completing a contractor trial period
“No one joins agency until they have work for me as a contractor. I'm going to put you to work and I am going to be real exactly how I am with everybody in the company today. And if you don't deliver at a level that is World-class in that one or two week timefr…”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 19:57 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Torres: HubSpot Had $30M Revenue and 200 Employees at Performable Acquisition
“When Brian Halligan came to me and bought my company, Performable, so he's like, our goal is to take it public in the next year or two. I had no clue what taking a company public meant. I mean, we had thirty million in revenue, 200 employees when he said those…”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 3:33 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Torres consulted for OpenAI on LLM apps for NBA and Ticketmaster
“And so I did consulting for them and I started from the bottom, right? People were like, who are you? I was doing some support tickets for them et cetera, explanations. But then I started getting contracts like the NBA, you know, ticket master. I'm in Dubai ta…”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 8:56 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Torres: Drift reached $100M revenue before $1B cash sale
“It took a long time for all those things to clear up what it meant to sell for a billion in cash, right? A company that we grew to a hundred million in revenue, eight years of hard work, but I lost the dream of building a thirty billion dollar company or takin…”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 5:36 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Torres built the first AI SDR at Drift in 2019
“At Drift, I built in 2019 the first AISDR”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 10:54 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Torres: Agency will only have one public email address
“At agency, there's only going to be one email address. It's aliasatagency.inc. Everyone will email. I will always like take care of all the customers, right?”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 15:14 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Torres: HubSpot Scaled from $30M to $130M Revenue in Three Years
“We go public, a billion dollar company, three years, everything was great. We went from 30 to a hundred and thirty million.”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 4:01 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Insight
Torres: Paul Graham's 'do things that don't scale' rule is obsolete
“I think I want to challenge like Paul Graham says, do things that don't scale. I think that that's game over for that statement, right? I think now we only have to do things that scale.”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 17:01 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
Dec 19, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Torres: 250 customer support reps at Drift did not solve scaling
“Cause at Drift I had 800 people, like 250 in the customer organization. That, that cannot happen again because it wasn't working, right? That, that number of people didn't necessarily solve the problem.”
Elias Torres Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 15:28 No Priors Ep. 94 | With CEO and Founder of Agency Elias Torres
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