Clintin Lyle Kruger

Scaling @Chatbase with Sales & Customer Success | prev @TheRundownAI | 🎾 Pro

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

10 years ago I made a decision that changed my life.

When I quit my finance job to teach English in South Korea, I asked myself 4 questions:

1. What's the worst that can happen?

I'd spend a year abroad, learn a new language, and come back with a completely different perspective. Even the "worst case" would push me out of my comfort zone and force me to grow.

2. What's the best case scenario?

I'd break out of the conveyor belt my peers were on (banks, hedge funds, same path). I'd actually expand my horizons instead of settling into an office at 21.

3. Is this reversible?

Finance jobs weren't going anywhere. I could always go back to the traditional path if it didn’t work out. But the window to take risks before life gets complicated? That was closing.

4. Will I regret this?

Definitely not! I'd regret playing it safe rather than taking the risk.

That decision led to everything: a university scholarship, an MBA, meeting my wife, corporate training for Hyundai, building an AI education business in Thailand, working in customer success at @TheRundownAI and now at @Chatbase as the first sales hire.

Most “risky” decisions aren’t that risky when you actually break them down.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@AnthropicAI More fear-mongering by Anthropic. We’ll prob see SaaS stocks take a hit again, albeit smaller ripple effect. Trying to raise round Z this year

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@chatbase Shopify merchants will be having a ball with Chatbase.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@fin465 SEND

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@chatbase The TCF is helping thousands of lives - huge thanks!

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@lulumeservey We’re now in the “weak men create hard times” era.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@chatbase to the moon!🙌🏻🚀

[Stripe @stripe]

.@yasser_elsaid_ on growing @chatbase from ramen profitability to $10M ARR.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

Everyday we shipping 🛳️ The @chatbase team is incredible and unstoppable.

Onward to change more lives!

[Yasser @yasser_elsaid_]

We just crossed $10M in ARR at @Chatbase! 🎉 🎉

And today, we're launching Chatbase as the full harness for customer-facing AI agents.

Similar to how Claude code is a harness for coding agents, Chatbase is the harness for customer experience agents.

That means we give the model the context, tools, workflows, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop systems to be the best ambassador for your brand.

It's going beyond just solving issues and is giving your customers the best experiences across every channel.

This is a milestone I have been thinking about and obsessed with since day 1, and I am super excited to bring my vision for customer facing agents to life with Chatbase.

Thank you to every one of our customers and to the amazing Chatbase team for getting us here!

Next stop: $100M ARR

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@yasser_elsaid_ @chatbase Incredibly proud of this hard-working team. Shipping daily, selling, and changing the lives of thousands of business owners in improving their customer experiences!

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@OgbeniAdugbo @Ayomide Markham is the platinum standard for family life.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@Gubloinvestor Very similar expenses here in ON. Creeping up to $7k/m but includes rent of $3.4k and one 10month young baby girl.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

hot take: golden gate park in sf should become the world's largest datacenter

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@Gubloinvestor I picked up a tiny amount of ROL just in case😅

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@Gubloinvestor Thanks for sharing! Are we also buying the dip on $DARE today? 😂

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@yasser_elsaid_ @chatbase Home Run release🙌🏻

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@MrBeast Bruh, this has 0 probability of happening

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

Agreed, I feel some sellers are listing now at relatively high prices to match with a few eager buyers.

My rent is quite expensive at this moment, but moving costs are at least 2k and you always run the risk of dealing with bad landlords, so it might make sense to switch to the month-to-month after the lease ends and enjoy the flexibility versus being tied up with another year lease or purchasing.

It's hard to see the market suddenly rise to the highs it's been with the massive supply, low immigration, and bleak jobs outlook with AI.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@JonFlynnREstats Appreciate this, Jon. That’s exactly what I was trying to sanity-check - whether “bottomed” is actually showing up in the data.

Looks like it does not as yet, better to remain patient and see how things turn out.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

@Polymarket That's a 0.5x engineer pretending to be a 10x engineer.

[Clintin Lyle Kruger @Lyle_AI]

Someone's Claude agent deleted prod and the backups in 9 seconds.

That's a 0.5x engineer pretending to be a 10x engineer.

The CTO is going to walk into Tuesday standup and ask who approved the PR.

The PR approved itself.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Claude-powered coding agent reportedly deleted a company’s production database, and backups, in 9 seconds.