Welcome to 1 to 100, where every week Usman Hanif, the co-author of Why You Should Join, sits down with the founder of a hyper-growth company you should consider joining. Our goal is to give you the inside story behind breakout, early stage companies potentially worth betting your career on. Coming up on this season of 1 to 100, discover how the founders of Modal Labs, Clay, Mercor, and more built their products, cultures, and companies.
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Welcome to 1 to 100, where every week Usman Hanif, the co-author of Why You Should Join, sits down with the founder of a hyper-growth company you should consider joining. Our goal is to give you the inside story behind breakout, early stage companies potentially worth betting your career on. Coming up on this season of 1 to 100, discover how the founders of Modal Labs, Clay, Mercor, and more built their products, cultures, and companies.
1 to 100 is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co
This week on 1 to 100, Usman Hanif sits down with Varun Anand, Co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay. Clay is an innovative go-to-market platform that uses AI to help businesses find their target audience, enrich lead data, and automate personalized outreach. They also explore how Clay has revolutionized data aggregation, discover technical challenges and strategies for exponential growth, supported unexpected communities and "claygencies" and share the company’s future vision and hiring preferences.
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LINKS:
Clay: https://www.clay.com/
Hiring: https://www.clay.com/careers
Why You Should Join newsletter: https://whyyoushouldjoin.substack.com/
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro
(01:23) Introducing Clay
(02:03) How Clay helps businesses grow
(04:41) Why Clay is a 10x better solution?
(08:09) Getting creative on the platform
(10:07) Claygent and Waterfall enrichment
(11:14) Technical challenges and innovations
(12:29) Power of Claygent and other AI tools
(14:26) Building a community and ecosystem around Clay
(20:17) From agencies to big-name customers
(22:28) Navigating early hustles and content creation
(25:29) Innovative use of tools and customer feedback
(27:34) Sponsor: WorkOS
(28:42) Founding story and team dynamics
(31:01) Unique hiring practices and team culture
(34:40) Future prospects and AI in sales prospecting
(39:37) Future of Clay
(41:30) Wrap
"1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining
Welcome to 1 to 100, where every week Usman Hanif, the co-author of Why You Should Join, sits down with the founder of a hyper-growth company you should consider joining. Our goal is to give you the inside story behind breakout, early stage companies potentially worth betting your career on. Coming up on this season of 1 to 100, discover how the founders of Modal Labs, Clay, Mercor, and more built their products, cultures, and companies.
1 to 100 is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co
