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Welcome to Startup Stories from the Treehouse, where we bring you the most captivating tales of entrepreneurship. Each episode is a new adventure, featuring entrepreneurs who turned their dreams into reality. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just getting your feet wet, 'Startup Stories from the Treehouse' is your inspiration to build, innovate, and soar. Tune in, and let's start the adventure together!
AI-Powered Account Management: Finding Gold in Your Backyard
Startup Stories from the Treehouse
49 minutes 16 seconds
1 month ago
AI-Powered Account Management: Finding Gold in Your Backyard
Retaining customers is your fastest path to revenue, and AI can supercharge it. Ram Ganesan, CEO of Kaboom.ai, saw that most CRMs optimize for new pipeline, not existing relationships. Kaboom flips that: it maps relationship networks, mines unstructured data (emails, notes, earnings calls), and proactively nudges account managers—“It’s time to meet; this RFP decision is near”—boosting both rookies and stars.
Founder lessons:
Hunt for workflow gaps in mature tools; build for results, not features.
Tie pricing to outcomes to align incentives.
Blend domain expertise with an engineering mindset: treat sales as a sequence of solvable steps.
Focus hard; say no; manage self-inflicted anxiety.
Future: Kaboom aims to be the “account operating system,” spanning CS, delivery, and finance, deployed in customers’ private clouds with model-agnostic LLMs.
Ready to turn expertise into revenue in 6 months? Wildfire Labs’ AI-first studio can help—8–12 week builds, GTM support, and an I-Corps $2,000 grant. Visit wildfirelabs.io or email info@wildfirelabs.io.
Startup Stories from the Treehouse
Welcome to Startup Stories from the Treehouse, where we bring you the most captivating tales of entrepreneurship. Each episode is a new adventure, featuring entrepreneurs who turned their dreams into reality. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just getting your feet wet, 'Startup Stories from the Treehouse' is your inspiration to build, innovate, and soar. Tune in, and let's start the adventure together!
