Outreach’s Manny Medina: “Most founders give up too soon”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Manny Medina, chief executive of Outreach, to talk about how artificial intelligence is invading the sales business (2:30), why it will enhance humans (6:10), growing up farming shrimp in Ecuador (7:45), communism (9:30), coming to America (11:45), his original startup idea, and abandoning it (14:50), why his capitalist life does not conflict with his communist upbringing  (18:50), what is happening in the economy (21:30), moving from a tiny apartment (25:20), and the power of belief (32:00).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More from Danny In The Valley

  1. 31:01DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "We need laws to protect AI's"Apr 19, 2024
  2. 47:40Arbol's Sid Jha: "Insurance in the era of climate calamities" Apr 12, 2024
  3. 56:14Orchid's Noor Siddiqui: "Super-babies" Apr 05, 2024
  4. 43:55Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda: “Your AI soulmate”Mar 29, 2024
  5. 43:05Perplexity.ai’s Dmitry Shevelenko: “The battle for the front page of the Internet”Mar 22, 2024
  6. 44:01Eion's Ana Pavlovic Hans: “Rocks that clean up the planet” Mar 15, 2024
  7. 50:45Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon: "Back to the future of the Internet" Mar 08, 2024
  8. 38:34Pachama's Diego Saez Gil: "Building software to save nature" Mar 01, 2024
  9. 44:40Expensify's David Barrett: "Venture capital is a scam”Feb 23, 2024
  10. 50:12Climactic's Raj Kapoor: "We need 1,000 climate tech unicorns" Feb 16, 2024