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Growing the team at Pump… and our merch collection🧢 I’m hiring across engineering, including an Engineering Manager! If you want to help us scale, build alongside an ambitious team, and secure yourself a hat too - DM me. Link to all open roles here: https://lnkd.in/geJbHS_w
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Most 'early-stage' companies make the mistake of treating management like a binary switch. One day you're an IC, the next you're a manager. Title changes, calendar fills with 1:1s, and we expect the transition to be clean. At Pump.co, we made the same mistake 🙈 What I've realized over the last couple of months is that management is a spectrum. Player to coach. And where you sit on it should shift as your team grows from 6 to 20 people. - At 6, you're mostly player, maybe 20% coach. - At 10, you're 40% coach. - At 13-15, you're 60% coach. - At 20, you're all coach, no longer playing yourself. The shape changes by function - CSM, BDR, AE, eng each have their own rhythm. But the spectrum still holds. The cost of getting this wrong is asymmetric. Over-index on "manager" and you pull your most valued player (pun intended) away from where they create the most value. Their output drops. The team's output doesn't go up enough to make up for it. Under-index and someone's running a 15-person team while still trying to close their own deals or ship their own code. Balls drop. The team's ceiling becomes their bandwidth. We've since recalibrated across our AE, CSM, and eng teams. The shift in thinking: stop asking "are they an IC or a manager?" Start asking "what's the right player/coach mix for the team size they're running today?" Different question. Different answer.
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Shrivant Bhartia has been telling me Jalebi Street is the best Indian food in SF for months. Finally caved and we bought the place out for 2 hours tmrw starting 6.30pm!!! We are hosting a dinner for desi engineering leaders in the Bay (and anyone who just loves Indian food). A few spots open to my network. DM me if you'd like to come. https://luma.com/0yg3twlg
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Shrivant Bhartia has been telling me Jalebi Street is the best Indian food in SF for months. Finally caved and we bought the place out for 2 hours tmrw starting 6.30pm!!! We are hosting a dinner for desi engineering leaders in the Bay (and anyone who just loves Indian food). A few spots open to my network. DM me if you'd like to come. https://luma.com/0yg3twlg
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Matcha is expensive. Cloud infrastructure is too. If you’re paying for premium resources, you want to make sure you’re getting the most out of them. Pump helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud spending and get more value from their infrastructure budget. So more of that budget can go toward the things that matter. Like matcha!
Filmed an episode today with Serguei Balanovich, Co-founder and CTO of Upsolve AI (YC W24). Harvard grad, 7 years at Palantir, YC W24. We got into his experience at Palantir, what he took from YC, how he applied both to building Upsolve AI, and how Upsolve uses adversarial agents that check each other's work and learn from one another to get smarter over time. Full episode dropping soon!
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I raised from Sheryl Sandberg to make marketing autonomous. Here’s where I think marketing is headed and what we're building at Flint AI. Here’s what I shared: - Most ad spend leaks conversions because the landing page doesn't match what the ad promised. Creating a personalized landing page for every ad can triple your conversion rate - Comparison pages are the highest-converting pages you can build. Buyers landing on them already know they have a problem and need a solution. They're just deciding between you and a competitor - Account-based marketing has shifted from 1-to-many to 1-to-1. Buyers need to see how your product solves their problems specifically. A generic landing page won't close the deal - The future of marketing looks a lot like self-driving cars. Within the year, autonomous agents will be running campaigns, finding traffic, and updating your site 24/7 without a human in the loop Thank you Andrew Caslow from Pump.co for having me on the Pumpcast. Check out the full episode below. 👇
Michelle Lim, founder and CEO of Flint AI, joins the Pumpcast to talk about building the future of AI powered marketing. She shares how Flint helps companies turn ad traffic into conversions with personalized landing pages, why she believes autonomous marketing is coming faster than people think, and how AI agents are changing the way marketing teams operate. We also get into startup culture, building a high agency team, content strategy, conferences, brand building, and what it takes to scale a company in the AI era. Full episode in the comments.
Great night hosting dinner with the Rho team this week. One of the best parts of building in the startup ecosystem is getting to work alongside teams like Rho. Always a great time getting everyone together for good food, strong conversations, and talking shop with people who care deeply about what they’re building. Looking forward to continuing to build and grow together. Sidharth Menon, Neel Mehta, Serguei Balanovich, Kristy Kim,Nikhil Aggarwal, Ka Ling Wu, Adi Agashe, Ray Jang, Gregory Garcia, David Frankle, Jayson Fung, Dylan Chang
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Michelle Lim, founder and CEO of Flint AI, joins the Pumpcast to talk about building the future of AI powered marketing. She shares how Flint helps companies turn ad traffic into conversions with personalized landing pages, why she believes autonomous marketing is coming faster than people think, and how AI agents are changing the way marketing teams operate. We also get into startup culture, building a high agency team, content strategy, conferences, brand building, and what it takes to scale a company in the AI era. Full episode in the comments.
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DAY ONE AS THE REAL HUNGRIEST BDR--- Layth Attar I woke up at 8:27am. A little earlier than usual. Brushed my teeth got, dressed and Made my bed and cleaned all excess paper and food material from my room. I then practied piano for 10 minutes, which was boring and, me think about how I'd rather have an Ai automate this and my other creative workflows. Dm me if you have anything. Walked into work at 9:43am (sorry Paul Russo) This is where things get interesting. Starting at 10:35, I began making cold calls. I made four (4) cold calls. I then got a little bit bored and thought that I had been productive enough. All in a day's work! Tomorrow, I am considering ramping up to anywhere between seven and nine ( 7& 9) calls. If you are a consultant with advice on how to go about this or a SaaS provider with an interesting-workflow automtaing software, dm me if you have anything! Thank you for your attention! More to follow later.