Sam

are you happy now?

[Jaden Tripp @jadenitripp]

@BernieSanders —

[Eric Rea @ericwilliamrea]

We just crossed $100M in AI agent ARR in under 24 months.

Not because of a viral launch or AI hype.
But because of a crazy bet we made in 2023.

At the end of 2023, over 60k local businesses were using @PodiumHQ to centralize their leads and customer communication into one platform.

It’s a great product. Customers convert more leads and make more money with it.

But one reality became impossible to ignore:

Our customers’ biggest constraint isn’t software. It’s staffing.

→ 75% annual turnover
→ 30% of leads come after hours
→ Every missed call can be $20,000+ in lost revenue

Business owners don’t care about software.
They care about making money.

And the best software in the world doesn’t matter if there aren’t enough people to run it.

So we built Jerry, the perfect user of our own platform.

Not a chatbot. An AI employee that uses Podium to:
- Qualify and schedule every lead
- Handle objections and follow up
- Learn through natural-language coaching
- Work 24/7

Demos are easy.
Real AI employees are not.

To work in the real world, AI has to think, act, understand context, and use tools.
It has to handle thousands of edge cases every day.
It has to be coachable. Like a human.

That leap is enormous.

Agents aren’t a feature. They’re the foundation.

That’s why we rebuilt Podium as an AI-first system of agents.

Today:
- 10,000+ AI agents live in production
- AI now outperforms humans in many jobs
- $100M+ in AI agent ARR, and accelerating

This is still day one.

The future isn’t software. It's AI employees that do the work and unlock growth for businesses.

We’re early in building what we believe will become the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for the $3T SMB market.

We’ve seen 300% year-over-year AI revenue growth and we’re just getting started.

[Pavel Asparouhov @Pavel_Asparagus]

It’s all just very sad

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

@TheUteFanatic This makes my heart warm

[Geoff Lewis @GeoffLewisOrg]

Life is for living, and living is free.

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

@ZackGrymes @ryan_cantera What the hell? Where is mine?

[Ralph Lauren Pics That Go Hard @RLGoesHard]

Hunter S. Thompson in Ralph Lauren, 1988

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

They don't know consciousness is an electromagnetic phenomenon.

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

@APompliano @zachweinberg Can attest to this first hand

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Given the brittle state of the economy, it’s absolutely terrifying that nearly all of our major political leaders are either ignorant of or willing to completely ignore the very most basic laws of economics

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us... or we can shitpost our way back into the light

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

North Korea comes in better than Amazon but slightly worse than Uber on political diversity

[Axial Wanderer @EricWollberg]

Remember it’s not just that they are wrong, it’s that they are actively lying to you.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Are you speaking truth to power, or power to truth?

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

@ZackGrymes Delete this

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

I’m extremely confident Contrary will become one of the most important organizations in the world. Congrats to @etarczynski @whrobbins and the rest of the team on fund 3!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Checking in on what the fact-checkers and experts have to say...

[Sam @ShillingfordSam]

If you’re feeling generous, please consider donating to my friend’s cancer fund.
https://t.co/uuVZcgU1Az

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

is now a good time to talk about silicon valley’s espionage problem

[Tim Dillon @TimJDillon]

Human traffickers who pimped kids to rich politicians really get sad in jail huh?