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Mishra: Combining personal passions does not work in early-stage entrepreneurship
“Don't start something which is, which you feel Which is cool, like, because we love gaming and we found it cool, so we just started it. And we combined two things which we liked. It's like, we realized that it's not an art. It's not, neither a science, but it'…”
Pixis reached $5M to $6M in ARR before hiring any sales reps
“So we didn't hire any of the sales guys until we were like beyond five, six million ARR until then it was just.”
Products without moats inevitably plateau, even with strong go-to-market strategies
“There is a limit to which you can scale a product, which doesn't have a moat. GTM can be a moat, but product also has to have a moat. Otherwise, It can scale to a level, then it flattens out.”
Mishra: Scaling digital marketing by adding headcount is doomed to fail
“That when it comes to the space of marketing, especially the digital marketing piece, everyone was spending money by throwing bodies at it. By that, I mean that let's hire four more people. Let's hire maybe 10 more people in the creative side, maybe four more …”
Pixis will cross $85 million in ARR in 2024 across 400 customers
“We're around more than 400 customers. And we'll be crossing close to 80, eighty five million dollars of ARR this year.”
Standard diffusion models fail enterprises over data indemnity and product distortion
“If you typically use any of the diffusion models out there are two large problems for large enterprises. The first one being it's trained on no one knows which data. So even the companies don't know on which data. So it's like for Austin, it doesn't make sense…”
Pixis sold vaporware by pitching unbuilt ad generation as a locked feature
“So that, we told them that that will be a part of the paid machine. So once you, this is the part of the trial. So that, like, you know, how you sell SaaS that this is a locked feature for now and you can unlock it when you pay for it.”
Mishra: Pixis built generative AI solutions inside Unreal Engine
“What we did was using our gaming experience to build our GNI solutions inside Unreal Engine. So that gave us an edge in terms of right from starting itself, and even now, our systems are capable of generating Really high quality video. We call it the first cin…”
Targeting the US earlier and simplifying AI positioning accelerates product-market fit
“If I were to change certain things, I'll directly start with the U S market even earlier maybe partly with the Asian market itself to reach to the product market fit even faster. And even in terms of the positioning of the product I would have made it like sim…”
Pixis expanded its first free enterprise pilot into a $1.5M deal
“Pilot was free of cost. We gave them a free of cost pilot. And when they saw the value, they bought the solution and deployed it across the country. That's when it became like our first million dollar client and eventually expanded to one and a half million do…”