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How founders found demand, fixed positioning, and landed the first repeatable growth loop.
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How Gong Built a $7B AI Category: From "Conversation Intelligence" to the Revenue Operating System Most sales teams fly blind. They rely on "gut feel" and "art" rather than data and science. Eilon Reshef (Co-founder & CPO of Gong) realized this in 2015 and built a platform that captures the reality of every customer interaction…

In this episode of Startup Project, host Nataraj sits down with Andrew Bialecki, Co-founder and CEO of Klaviyo, to unpack one of the most capital-efficient growth stories in modern SaaS history. Klaviyo grew into a $7B+ public company while raising just $15M in total funding—a sharp contrast to today’s venture-backed growth playbooks. Klaviyo now powers…

In this episode of Startup Project, host Nataraj speaks with Ilya Levtov, Founder and CEO of CraftCo, an AI-powered platform designed to help organizations better understand and organize supplier information. The conversation focuses on how enterprises and public-sector organizations manage large supplier networks, bring together data from multiple systems, and use AI-driven tools to improve…

Discover how Cerebras is challenging NVIDIA with a fundamentally different approach to AI hardware and large-scale inference. In this episode of Startup Project, Nataraj sits down with Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, to discuss how the company built a wafer-scale AI chip from first principles. Andrew shares the origin story of Cerebras,…

Discover how Radical AI is revolutionizing material science using self-driving labs. About the episode: Nataraj hosts Joseph Krause, CEO of Radical AI, to explore how they’re speeding up material R&D by combining AI, engineering, and robotics. Joseph shares his journey from material science to venture capital, highlighting Radical AI’s mission to create a self-driving lab…

Unlock the secrets to Decagon AI’s $1.5 billion valuation and AI-powered customer support. Ashwin Sreenivas is the co-founder of Decagon AI, a company revolutionizing enterprise customer support with AI agents. Founded in 2023, Decagon has rapidly grown to a $1.5 billion valuation, automating support workflows for brands like Duolingo and Notion. Ashwin, previously co-founder of…