Kareem Amin

“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.”

“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.”

“I think capitalism rewards risk more than anything else. I think a lot of people think it's like meritocracy or hard work, which I think is silly... I do think it rewards risk, which makes sense.”

“You have an initial put a computer on every desk. I remember that mission when I was a kid. You did put a computer on every desk. But now the mission is devices and services and do cool things. Once you achieve a mission... should you disband or should you keep like the minimal number of people?”

“I really like tools like Ableton Live. I have an idea. I can extract it from my mind and into the machine.”