Liam Golightley

[Eric Rea @ericwilliamrea]

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Fortunately, we’re pretty good at AI.

Introducing Podium Operator for automotive.

[Evan Armstrong @itsurboyevan]

I think @PodiumHQ is one of the best stories in AI today, and no one's paid attention.

Went from near-collapse to $100M+ in AI ARR. Then its biggest competitor gave 1K customers 30 days to rip it out—and Podium booked 100+ demos from them in 24 hours.

https://t.co/OpmB16RRVS

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@KarlApexFit Any resistance band you recommend?

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@asimovinc This is awesome. Anyone tried a scaled down version? I like in a small nyc apartment…

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@kevsmac @Raspberry_Pi @kevsmac love your stuff! FYI your website is down!

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

https://t.co/0Ln0gyx8ZL

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@karpathy Wow. I loved your micrograd videos. Thinking about any videos on this?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Podium is a case study in how powerful it is to take your existing SaaS customers and enable AI agents for them

[Tom Loverro @tomloverro]

I’ve been in venture capital for ~2 decades and have sat on many boards, and I’ve never seen the kind of transformation @PodiumHQ just engineered:

Annual cash burn went from $95M to $0.
AI ARR went $0M to $100M — in 21 months.

Here’s what happened…

@PodiumHQ had built a communications product for small businesses. It worked, but coming out of the ZIRP era, growth was flattening.

We were at a critical moment, Pre-ChatGPT: Was the product a nice-to-have or a need-to-have? It was a problem that needed solving.

@ericwilliamrea went into Founder Mode to create a clear need-to-have product.

Experimenting with AI in 2023 wasn’t controversial. But as board members, we weren’t sure the product would work or the revenue would stick. Would all of these customers churn?

Then @PodiumHQ management made the call: invest more time and money into R&D before hyping the product or going big on GTM.

In the first three months, something was clearly different. We’d launched plenty of products before. Nothing had ever taken off this fast.

As board members, we wondered (as board members tend to do): was there a catch?

Nope. And another three months in, still no catch. Just real value.

And now, here we are, 21 months later and AI agent ARR rocketed from $0 to $100M, our overall ARR growth rate is way up and @PodiumHQ has gone from burning $95M a year to $0M.

That “AI chatbot” experiment became @PodiumHQ's top employee, singlehandedly driving $100M in ARR. His name is Jerry.

Jerry is a customer service agent for auto, home services & wellness businesses. Customers often walk in asking to speak with him. He has hundreds of 5-star Google reviews. He even won “Employee of the Month” 😅Why? Jerry answers text/voice 24/7/365 within ~30 secs.

Customers using @PodiumHQ’s Jerry 2.0 are seeing a 30% revenue lift.🚀 Not to mention…Jerry 2.0 can be coached up to any subject in ~60 seconds.

I couldn’t be more impressed with CEO @ericwilliamrea and the @PodiumHQ team, who understood that the qualities that make a great AI agent are the same as those that make a great human employee: Knowing the job, industry and playbook, can be coached and work tirelessly.

No wonder @OpenAI made Jerry 2.0 a case study: Zero to $100M ARR in 21 months, in > 10,000 customer locations. I’ve watched this go from early conviction to undeniable traction.

The market is voting. Find the @OpenAI case study here: https://t.co/fJDPR8Yyfo /END

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

Huge congrats @ericwilliamrea and @PodiumHQ team!

[Ben Eater @beneater]

Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@tom_doerr Anyone have a favorite course? I am looking for the CS50 equivalent for robotics

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@aaditsh @grok explain this to me

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@elonmusk @elon seems like a shortage of anyone at the Cancun airport. Is this a trade war retribution!?! We have been here for 5 hours. Help us!

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@AJA_Cortes Peptides

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@fabianschaer Let’s go Bruno!

[CRISPR News 🧬 @CRISPR_News]

BREAKING: CRISPR edited pig kidney transplanted into living patient. Scientists used CRISPR to make 69 changes to the pig kidney, removing harmful pig genes, adding human genes and making other edits to prevent the transmission of pig viruses. https://t.co/EHAq0ZScNt

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@karpathy @darshilistired Very excited on this Andrej! I have been combining your series with Andrew Ng’s course and it is an awesome combo!

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@jrkelly Very excited for this!

[Liam Golightley @Golightley9]

@Lawbitrage This is great. Thanks very much!