My First 16: Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
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In a new episode of My First 16, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Pilot Waseem Daher on how he thought about the importance of charging, how secondary signals often matter in an area like accounting, and never stepping away from doing founder-led sales.
0:00 - 1:45 Intro
1:45 - 6:36 Pilot's beginning
6:36 - 13:25 First customers
13:25 - 18:02 Pricing
18:02 - 25:29 Building a GTM team
25:29 - 27:58 Advice for founders/Outro
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