Bobby Samuels
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2026 by Bobby Samuels · across every show →
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Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Apr 13, 2026 negative
Enterprise AI deals driven by top-down executive mandates rarely yield recurring revenue
“One of the things that we always want to watch out for is this notion of like companies where they have some dictate from on high of I don't know what, but just figure out our AI strategy. And if it's that top down, often there's not a substance to it. And so …”
Apr 13, 2026
AI data platforms should prioritize speed over take rate or giant partners
“Our take was, this is a market that's moving extremely fast. Figure out the path of least resistance. So don't optimize on take rate. Don't optimize on getting the biggest systems in the world. Figure out the path of least resistance.”
Apr 13, 2026
Product-market fit is dramatically more fleeting in the post-AI world
“Notion of we found product market fit and let's scale, which maybe was truer in like a pre AI world. If it exists at all in a post AI world, I think is much more fleeting and you sort of have to be evolving at a historically fast rate on team.”
Apr 13, 2026
Protégé offers data partners revenue share with full pricing and usage control
“We'll take a rev share, remit the rest back to you. You should trust us because you know me, I ran this privacy business and you have total control over who uses the data for what use case and how it's priced. And so you can opt out with anything you want.”
Apr 13, 2026
Texting terms with buyers is the ultimate enterprise relationship litmus test
“The litmus test that I used initially, and then I used for other folks on the team is, are you on texting terms with them, with the like buyer? If you were not on texting terms with someone, I am worried we don't actually have the relationship we need.”
Apr 13, 2026
Apr 13, 2026 positive
AI model builders demand perpetual data licenses to enable continuous model retraining
“One of the things we've seen is for high quality data, the model builders don't want to part with it. It's not the, we train once, we don't need the data ever again. It's we train once and if it's good, we want it forever because if we retrain our models from …”
Apr 13, 2026
Samuels closed a diagnostic lab deal by ignoring their initial rejection email
“And at one point in the deal, we got an email from the lab saying, hey, the data you have doesn't work for us. We're really, you know, we're sorry, but we'd love to work with you in the future. And I basically ignored the no. And I was like, oh, okay. We actua…”