Goyal: Braintrust's early growth came from targeting 50 key AI innovators
Ankur Goyal · No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal · Oct 8, 2024 · at 31:51
Ankur Goyal, CEO of Braintrust, discusses his company's early go-to-market strategy with investor Elad Gil.
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“Really the thing that we did was we made that list of, like, 50 people who we thought were leading the way in AI and said, you know, let's try to figure out a way to get to these people and either get, recruit them as investors or as customers. And I think that was probably one of the most important, if not the most important things that we did.”
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