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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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
Mortensen: x.ai schedules hundreds of thousands of meetings
“We are setting up hundreds of thousands of meetings and this being one of them.”