Writer CEO May Habib Discusses Close AI Customer Partnerships In Podcast

Writer’s May Habib: On VC Bias, 'Token Maxing,' And The Customers Anthropic And OpenAI Leave BehindFortune 500 boards are in weekend crisis meetings about adopting AI. Many have nothing to show for it, despite spending millions with the big AI labs. "Anthropic and OpenAI salespeople walk in like heroes, get a contract, and leave to literally never be seen again,” says Writer CEO May Habib. That’s where her startup, Writer, cleans up. Valued at $1.9 billion, Writer builds for the ‘normal’ people in enterprise, its agents helping customers like Accenture, Cigna and Vanguard with everything from creating morning sales briefings to personalized product invites. On The Upstarts Podcast, Habib talks about the pivot from Qordoba’s machine translation to Writer’s AI models; ‘token maxing’ and tokenomics’ “absolute insanity”; and why she believes people should start getting fired for buying AI without results. Plus, she shares her Upstart Moment: facing VC bias first-hand, from Vinod Khosla falling asleep in their meeting, to a rejection from Sequoia that called her running a startup with two kids “inspiring.” Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 1:55 How Writer helps ‘normal’ people 9:31 The temperature in the C-suite around AI 16:56 The killer use case for Writer’s tools 21:16 Pivoting from Qordoba to Writer 22:31 Vinod Khosla, Sequoia, and bias in VC 27:43 ‘Survive, don’t sell, don’t quit’ 30:33 Why Writer trains models, but isn’t a lab 33:38 Anthropic, OpenAI and how Writer can compete 40:52 Why people should be fired for buying AI badly May's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/may-habib/ Writer: https://writer.com/ For more, visit https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ Season 2 of the Upstarts Podcast is presented by ⁠⁠⁠Rippling⁠⁠: https://rippling.ai/upstarts Produced & edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod: https://lightningpod.fm/5h agoYouTube

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The first time a customer called AI unicorn Writer a "vendor," CEO May Habib (@may_habib) says she almost cried 😂 "I was like, vendor? What?!" She got over it quickly, she says, because @Get_Writer works so closely with customers on their AI plans. "You find who are the power users, the innovators, the executives who are ambitious and can think big about what the technology can do, and you become the tip of the spear for the account together." Catch the full interview on The Upstarts Podcast, presented by @Rippling.

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