Stacey Epstein

CEO at Structured. Podcaster, Advisor, Board Member, Coach, Wife, Mom. Helped take SuccessFactors and Freshworks public.

[Sol Henik @SolHenik]

Hoop of the day: Styrsö, Sweden

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

Thrilled to share that I stepped into the CEO role at Structured last month.
Structured has built a powerful partner marketing platform for global enterprises, and the shift to an AI-native foundation creates a meaningful opportunity ahead.
Full announcement: https://t.co/otct7OXnMc

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

@MitchBookLive They were going for 51 in honor of deceased player Amin, #51

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

Could employee digital twins streamline collaboration? @Viven_Twins co-founder Ashutosh Garg thinks so https://t.co/LAq0AmOOcb

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

A large part of our daily work jobs involves asking the same questions: “what’s the status of this”, “what’s the latest with that”, “has this person responded”..

We waste SO much time going back and forth since we lack the context that another human possesses. What if you could ask a question that could immediately be answered by a digital representation of the same human with all the context in a secure way?

This is what Ashutosh & Varun have built as part of @Viven_Twins.

We are thrilled to have an opportunity to invest in them and be part of their seed round as they come out of stealth along with friends at @khoslaventures, @FoundationCap & @OpCo_VC.

[Viven.AI @Viven_Twins]

We did it. Viven is live.
Months of late nights and quiet breakthroughs led to this — a Digital Twin that learns your voice, remembers your work, and keeps momentum alive.

It’s the beginning of remembering.

#Viven #AI #DigitalTwin #LaunchDay

👉 https://t.co/GxMT5VFRzT

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

We are launched! Proud to work on this one with the @Viven_Twins team.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital. https://t.co/U2Rfg0JeeK

[Khosla Ventures @khoslaventures]

Introducing @Viven_Twins: digital twins for every employee.

Each twin captures an employee's knowledge and context so you can talk to them any time, even when they're not available.

More on their $35M raise below👇 https://t.co/Tk8kL3VLLj

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

The most requested topic on my podcast:
How to stay visible in ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews.
I talked with @BlyskalJoshua from @profound about:
⚠️ Drop in paid search leads
📊 Answer Engine Optimization
🔍 How to actually show up in AI results

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/r0TwKCJigW
#AEO #AIsearch #marketing #SEO

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

New ep of AI’ve Got Questions 🎙️

I talk to Supriya Gupta, founder of The Agent C, about how AI is transforming ghostwriting + exec comms—without losing authenticity.

From engineer ➡️ founder ➡️ AI studio leader. Great convo.

🎧 Listen:
#AI #podcast #startups #marketing #leadership https://t.co/FgqxBDvAQI… #AI #podcast #startups #marketing #leadership

📷

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

🎙️Just dropped a must-listen ep of AI’ve Got Questions with @mauramrivera, CMO at @qualified.

They’re one of the most advanced GTM teams using AI, and this convo is full of real, working use cases.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/sknA7OPqRL
#AI #GTM #B2BMarketing #Qualified #Podcast

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

🎙️ New Episode: AI’ve Got Questions

I sat down with the amazing @AmandaKahlow , founder of @1mindai (and previously @6senseInc ), to talk about reimagining GTM with AI-powered Superhumans.

We covered:
✨ What she’s building
🧠 Where emotion meets AI
💥 Leading in a brand-new category
She’s bold, brilliant, and full of heart.
🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/yqrtzAPgKT
#AIveGotQuestions #1mind #AIinMarketing #WomenInTech #StartupLife

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

🎧 I launched a podcast.
It’s called AI’ve Got Questions—for marketers who know AI is a game-changer but are too busy building pipeline to figure it all out.
Each week, I talk to the builders behind the next-gen marketing tools.
👉 Episode 0 is live.
🚀 First 3 episodes drop this week. https://t.co/xNRBR1j5tz
#AIforMarketers #MarketingPodcast #CMOLife

[Aaron Levie @levie]

High skilled immigration has been central to America leading the world in tech.

The biggest misunderstand about high skill immigration stems from people thinking that the market opportunities in tech, and tech-adjacent fields, are zero sum. This essentially imagines innovation is finite and we’re all fighting over the same job or opportunity pool.

This may be true of a few very legacy, slow growth industries, but it’s categorically not true for any important industry in the past 50 years or the next 100. Biotech, AI, advanced manufacturing, software, EVs, new energy sources, and dozens of other fields of the future are our high growth industries. And there’s no inherently fixed volume of companies or talent that the market needs.

Tesla being started or not started in America is the difference between 100,000’s of jobs here - and leading in EVs globally - and not. Apple being started here is the difference between potentially millions of jobs being here - and leading consumer electronics globally - and not. You could go through this list all day long.

Tech is not zero sum. More startups, pursuing more ideas, ultimately create more innovation and ultimately more jobs and prosperity. And that means you need the right talent to both work at these companies, and start the next ones. High skilled immigration has directly made America dominant technically and thus economically, and create far more jobs in America for others than are supposedly displaced.

Even briefly imagining the alternative scenario, it’s obvious how disastrous this would be. The demand from tech companies for this top talent will remain, yet America won’t benefit directly from their hiring. That talent will go to another company that competes with the US and makes our dominance harder to maintain. You’re just increasing the odds you have more competition in the future.

And even in the “best case” scenario (for our competitiveness) where a larger company like Google hires the same people internationally that would have otherwise moved here, when that person leaves Google to start their next company, it will be in their country of origin, not America.

This is how you lose the tech war within one or two generations. There’s simply no good game theory in anything that reduces our talent access.

Yes, we absolutely have and need to continue to educate and train incredible talent that grows up in the US, but equally having access to the world’s smartest talent has always been a huge advantage for America.

[Montana State WBB @MSUBobcatsWBB]

Oooooooooo 🤧

@robbinshannah24 | #GoCatsGo

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

In business, as in life, there is nothing more important than the people we spend our time with. Loved seeing old (but still young!) friends at the @emergencecap 20th anniversary event. I've worked with the incomparable @jasonegreen at THREE different companies, and worked with/for @dyarnold at FOUR. @rbernshteyn and I only have one together, but there is still plenty of time. These guys made an enormous impact on who I am, and how I lead.

Congratulations to Emergence for 20 incredible years, very honored to have been part of one of the very early successes - @successfactors .

[Stacey Epstein @staceyepstein]

As many of you know, I’ve been taking a break from full-time work. Advising scaling CEOs and CMOs has been refreshing and rewarding, and I haven’t taken a break from paying attention to what’s going on in the world of tech.

When the industry heated up over the Founder vs Manager mode, my emotions rose as well. I felt at odds with some of the principles described in both modes, (even if taken out of context from @bchesky's original iteration), and was compelled to define a leadership "mode" that’s been on my mind for a long while.

I call it ELT Mode. Please read on, and let me know what you think! Thank you @godardabel and @sydsloan for the opportunity to share on the G2 Newsletter.

How Scaling Teams Can Embrace ELT Mode For Improved Performance via @G2dotcom https://t.co/nTxLlT4m7z