Keith Peiris
Keith Peiris is the co-founder and CEO of Lightfield, an AI-native CRM company based in San Francisco. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Tome, an AI presentation tool that grew to 25 million users before he shut it down and pivoted to build Lightfield. Earlier in his career, he held product leadership roles at Instagram, where he grew Instagram Direct to 500 million monthly active users, and at Citizen, where he served as Head of Product. He is best known for the decision to walk away from a successful product with tens of millions of users to pursue a mission-critical CRM opportunity, a move that attracted a $47 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
“Deep down, I think at an instinctual level, none of us like the product... if you're a founder, you have to love the product that you're building”
Source→“the model just didn't have enough context to really understand the presenter, the audience... no amount of general reasoning gets you past that”
Source→“they moved off a 'flavor of the month' startup CRM to Salesforce after the vendor couldn't build dashboards fast enough”
Source→“Participants: Alex Rampell, Joe Schmidt, Keith Peiris”
Source→“for most of these record companies, you end up getting most of your revenue scale from actually the 50 miles out of here and more”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.