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Quotes and lessons on sales & closing from 3 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.
Quotes across interviews
My name is Dave David. I'm originally from the Netherlands. I'm currently founding a company in the space of the gut microbiome and how the gut microbiome influences how we respond to drugs and foods that we ingest.
— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode
Essentially, like modeling the gut microbiome is incredibly hard. So just building like kind of uh large AI models in the way that we do with text doesn't result in great u great models.
— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode
We just raised our series A and we've been really growing out the team, scaling it a lot. Seeing a ton of attraction attraction traction in the market and a lot of adoption.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
Where a lot of our competitors are building you know, chatbots that talk, we've been able to build that two years ago and now we build AI agents that are optimized better than any other agent.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
hypers spell is a building infrastructure for the AI app layer we allow you to connect any data source and make that data useful for AI right
— Conor Brennan-Burke, Hyperspell · episode
we know a lot of these other AI companies are also very early and so you know our our thing that we offer to them is hey you pay one flat fee we will handle your entire data pipeline
— Conor Brennan-Burke, Hyperspell · episode
FAQ
What does Anto do?
Anto is a YC F25 company focused on pharmacology and gastroenterology. The company uses trained foundation models to predict mechanisms of the gut microbiome and how it influences how humans break down drugs and food.
What is Anto's first product and business model?
Anto's first product acts as a tech-enabled service that helps companies figure out whether the microbiome was involved in unexpected clinical trial results. Their initial business model involves forward-deployed software to help deploy these models into clinical trials.
How much did Phonely raise in their Series A funding round?
Phonely raised a 16 million dollar Series A funding round.
What roles is Phonely currently hiring for?
Phonely is aggressively hiring for account executives, growth and marketing personnel, engineering roles, and a bring-your-own-role position for talented individuals.
What does Hyperspell do?
Hyperspell builds data infrastructure for the AI app layer. It allows users to connect any data source like Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive to make that data useful for AI applications.
How does Hyperspell price its product for early customers?
Hyperspell charges a flat fee per month that gives early customers unlimited queries. They handle the entire data pipeline including data sources, account management, parsing, embedding, and query execution.
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