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Francisco Larrain: Enterprise CRMs fail by relying on manual data entry
“The problem that we're trying to solve is that we think CRM customer relationship management systems and enterprise are broken. And we think that the reason that they're broken is that they rely on salespeople to be proactive about manually entering data into …”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 4:45 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: CRM automation must extract data directly from passive interactions
“The big insight that we had in the company is that you really want to flip the problem around. You want to be able to integrate, grab all the interactions, phones, emails, meetings, like virtual meetings, and extract information from that, surface it to the re…”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 8:05 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: 80% to 90% of Sudo.ai interactions are AI-prompted
“And so we're about an 80 to 90% of the interactions now are prompted by pseudo.”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 11:07 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: Proactive AI prompts increased Sudo.ai usage from weekly to daily
“Yeah, the interaction before, when it was essentially reactive, it was like two, three times for the 20% of the customers that are the most engaged, from two to three times a week to five to seven times a day. So we really kind of like boosted the interaction …”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 12:03 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain grew a Chilean hedge fund from $300M to $2.5B
“The size of the hedge fund was three hundred millions, and when I left it was 2.5 billion, so we had a really good ride there.”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 3:28 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
Disclosure
Francisco Larrain: Sudo.ai has 30 to 40 unbilled private beta users
“So what we're doing is that we're working with like 30 or 40 customers right now, users, and, you know, we've learned tons from them, and, you know, also we've you know, we're not charging them because sometimes we have bugs, and like, you know, all those So a…”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 9:35 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: Prior startup Zapadly returned 4x to 5x in nine months
“We returned at four to five times the money for investors. In about a year, right? In about nine months actually.”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 16:37 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: Sudo.ai raised a $2.3M seed round at $8M pre-money
“In the seed round. We did an eight, eight million pre-money budget.”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 17:44 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
Disclosure
Francisco Larrain: Sudo.ai originally started as an expense management tool
“The way that we started, we actually started with expense management and you know, you will type, Hey, I had a really good chat with Nathan and then we have a breakfast and I spent 10 dollars and then the system was able to understand it. We were able to captu…”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 7:20 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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Francisco Larrain: Only one investor passed on Sudo.ai's seed round
“This time, essentially we had one investor passing. So out of all the people we pitched, everyone chipped in.”
Francisco Larrain Jan 30, 2017 ▶ 15:09 EP 555: Sudo.ai Raises $2.3M at $10.3M Post Money Valuation to Fix CRM Space with CEo Francisco Larrain
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