x.ai

20 statements across 4 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 8, 2017 by Nathan Latka · said 23 times in 7 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Aug 8, 2017 negative
Opinion
Latka: X.ai's automated scheduling assistant Amy is broken and unusable
“Jose, I hate that thing. There are so many CEOs that I'm trying to schedule a meeting with, and they say, oh, I'm going to introduce you to Amy. She'll help us find a time. I just, I ignore the CEO completely. That thing is so broken.”
Nathan Latka Aug 8, 2017 ▶ 14:50 745: At $1.5m Revenue, Is This The New PowerPoint?
Oct 3, 2017 negative
Opinion
Latka loses respect for CEOs who use x.ai's scheduling bot Amy
“I hate that damn thing. I, when CEO, when I'm trying to schedule someone for my podcast, and they say, meet Amy, and then I very quickly realize Amy's a bot who's not actually helping me find a freaking time. I get so pissed, and I lose complete respect for th…”
Nathan Latka Oct 3, 2017 ▶ 17:20 801: The $60M King of Ticket Sales
Jul 9, 2021 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: 83% of rated x.ai meetings receive five stars
“So, 83%, which was the last count I looked at, of all the meetings that we do are rated five stars. As in, we apply the option for people to rate the dialogue.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 10:17 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 negative
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Mortensen: x.ai's $39 pricing survey failed when the paywall launched
“So we surveyed about 5000 people to kind of find that initial price. We got it wrong. And I could have told myself that, but then again, if you ask people, would you like to pay? Yeah. Would you like to pay 39 dollars? Seems about right. Then when you put up y…”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 16:26 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 neutral
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Mortensen: AI navigating external scheduling links is beyond current capabilities
“Our solution doesn't have the intelligence to pick up some link in some text, visit that website, look at it through the eyes of, say, something like a human, and figure out, I should probably click one of these links and determine from what I see what time we…”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 5:01 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021
Insight
Mortensen: Scaling AI before solving accuracy risks polluting training data
“The worst thing that can happen right now is that I start to pollute my data set because I think I have everything solved. So we are extremely protective about that data set.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 14:08 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 negative
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Mortensen: x.ai lost one-third of customers after removing human verification
“That was the worst moment, I think, in our history for where we churned in that next couple of months, a third of all our customers, our whole customer base.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 22:16 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Mortensen: x.ai charges an average of $10 per month per customer
“10 bucks.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 11:39 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
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Mortensen: x.ai virtual assistants scheduled 3,500 meetings for me
“Four plus years in, Amy and Andrew have set up about 3500 meetings for me.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 7:18 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
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Mortensen: x.ai grew its waitlist to over 100,000 users in 18 months
“So we launched that probably in mid 2015, something like that. And then ran to kind of robust six figures over the next year, year and a half.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 16:00 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
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Mortensen: Over half of x.ai customers start as individual users
“More than half of all the customers that we get initially started as single individual users.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 24:33 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021
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Mortensen: 672 of 1,019 meetings he scheduled manually got rescheduled
“The year before I started x.ai, I did a 1019 meetings, probably a little less than you, who might be completely batshit crazy in your calendar, because I saw a screenshot of it earlier today. So in that regard, I might just be normal. But of a 1019 meetings, w…”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 8:41 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 neutral
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Mortensen: x.ai employs 70 people in Manila and 30 in NY
“So we are 70 in Manila and about 30 in New York.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 26:35 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 bullish
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Mortensen: x.ai grew ARR over 100% year-over-year
“Oh yes. Oh yeah, absolutely.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 30:48 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: x.ai reached seven-figure ARR within months of charging
“We ramped up in a few months to seven figures in ARR when we started charging for it. As in, kind of killed it. As if I looked at any one of my prior ventures, I actually really never kind of ramped up to seven figures at that rate.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 22:29 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: The AI scheduling platform with the largest network wins
“Whoever gets to build the bigger network first, It's probably going to end up having some sort of advantage, because if you and me both used Amy or Andrew, neither you nor me would have to do anything.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 5:35 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: x.ai schedules hundreds of thousands of meetings
“We are setting up hundreds of thousands of meetings and this being one of them.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 2:18 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mortensen: x.ai customer churn improved for 20 straight months
“This month and every month over the last. 1920 months. Have been better than the month before. So I'm in a very respectable range.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 19:23 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Jul 9, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Mortensen: x.ai has raised about $40M in venture capital
“About forty million dollars.”
Dennis Mortensen Jul 9, 2021 ▶ 27:16 Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
Dec 16, 2021 bearish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Nathan Latka says scheduling startup x.ai flash sold with zero investor return
“X.ai came on the scene a couple of years ago, raised a boatload of money, and then basically flash sold for, and you know, no one made any money basically on that deal recently.”
Nathan Latka Dec 16, 2021 ▶ 1:10 Is Reclaim the Next Calendly? 16,000 Users Keep Using Every Month, up 400% YoY
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