Data enrichment and outreach automation platform used by go-to-market teams.
“HubSpot is a CRM/marketing platform; Clay is a data enrichment and outbound prospecting tool. Paid sponsor promoting a live build-along event for seed/pre-seed founders focused on ICP definition, prospect enrichment, and AI-personalized outbound.”
“Clay are running a live build-along workshop on June 18 at 11am ET for seed and pre-seed founders.”
“A lot of companies that counter-position to Clay or in the space are like, hey, what you really want is salespeople are, people have literally used the word coin-operated. So what you need is something that's super easy to use... Whereas we think you always need in sales to find go-to-market alpha.”
Source→“We started with the really abstract ambition of how do we give the power of programming to more people... We ended up deciding business users for a variety of reasons. Within that, we're like, okay, which department in a business actually has a ton of ideas but isn't able to execute them? And landed on sales and marketing.”
Source→“WorkOS... 'Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS... It's essentially Stripe for enterprise features.'”
Source→“Cursor, Clay, Harvey, Cognition, Sierra, Baseten, Fireworks, and Lovable all went from roughly $0 to $100M ARR in the past two years, compressing what used to be a 6-10 year journey.”
“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best.”
Source→“What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS.”
Source→“54% of new enterprise logos came through a fully self-serve funnel (real ACV, real terms, real invoicing) without an AE, using Clay and Claude for qualification and Intercom Fin to guide the buyer journey.”
“4x faster than typing. 89% of messages sent with zero edits. Used by engineering teams at OpenAI, Vercel, and Clay.”
“I don't really type that much anymore... Bill Bench said the other day, 'No one's going to type anymore. Like, if you're typing, you're behind.'”
Source→“I met Varun and you know Varun. We went for multiple walks around. He lives around the corner from me in Brooklyn. I feel like I got a little bit of the cheat code because I do think that Clay is like the most compelling company on the planet right now.”
Source→“The culture that I think is best is when you have 60% of people over 100%, 80% over 80%. You're building a winning culture.”
Source→“Me and Todd, we agree on that. I actually don't really care what my title is. I do care how much you pay me.”
Source→“Clay — Startup GTM Accelerator access”
“Clay — Startup GTM Accelerator access”
“89% of messages sent with zero edits. Used by teams at OpenAI, Vercel, and Clay.”
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