To me Ali Rowghani is an ocean of wisdom ❤️

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 (𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻) There's a photo on my desk. I look at it sometimes when I need to remember who I was. That person knew something I forgot. Year 2024 - We got into @YCombinator. We got traction. Users were excited. I was in offices every day,

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The CRM just started driving itself. I click one button on Octolane AI and every single field updates in real-time. No data entry. No manual updates. Just AI pulling from emails, meeting transcripts, and live web search. Leadership changes? Found it. Product updates? Got it.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 (𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹) you know that moment when everything you've been working toward actually works? That happened to us this week. New customers kept signing up. They clicked our one-click CRM setup

Most people don't realize how much of the world runs on nobody checking if you're allowed to be there. Nobody asked me if I was "ready" to start a company while in college. We just started one and applied to YC with my best friend. Nobody asked if we were "big enough" to brief

Day 1 of 100. Let's go. 🚀 Today marks the beginning of our 100 customers in 100 days challenge at Octolane. And we're not starting with some grand announcement or polished pitch deck, we're starting with what matters: talking to our users and shipping fast to build what people

everyone’s worried AI will take their job. I’m worried about the people who refuse to use it. The pattern is always the same: - New technology arrives. - People resist it. - Early adopters get 10x more productive. - Resisters fall behind. - Resisters blame the technology. -

2 days ago, I set out to get 100 new paid customers. Today, I’m changing that to 1,000. Why? Because If I work like hell, I can probably get 100 customers. That’s the problem. “Probably” means I’m playing not to lose. 1,000 customers in 100 days? That’s impossible. Honestly I

that's why explained self-driving crm here: blog.octolane.com/self-driving-c… Thanks Vishal Verma 🙏

Big announcement. Launch Week starts now! And today, we're announcing Resend Inbound. Our most requested feature ever.

32 paid customers. 968 to go. 97 days left. this is day 3 of getting 1,000 customers in 100 days What we’re shipping this week: → Create deals by literally just talking to your CRM or uploading a screenshot → Email follow up with better LLM infrastructure support so you

I did 57 Sales Calls and Found the number 1 Predictor of Closing I've been doing founder-led sales for 18 months. Some calls feel great but go nowhere. Others feel mediocre but close in 48 hours. I couldn't figure out the pattern. So I did what any obsessive founder would do:

I'm 24, dropped out of Duke, joined YC, and bet everything on a startup. Here's what actually happens when you go all-in: 1. Your co-founder relationship matters more than your product: You can pivot products. You can't pivot people. Most startups die from founder breakups, not

Just upload the screenshot (or talk to your CRM), AI CRM extracts everything, contact info, deal size, stage, next steps, and creates the opportunity automatically. Octolane CRM now reads images with voice support and instantly creates deals in your CRM. Works with: - LinkedIn

The less I sounded like a salesperson, the more I sold. The more I admitted we were held together with duct tape, the faster people bought. Everything I learned closing deals from cafe wifi in San Francisco while my co-founder fixed bugs in real-time: 1. You're not selling a

AI agents at enterprise scale ⚡️ Designing the Giga brand. With the brilliant Varun Vummadi Esha Juan Carvajal

Everything in life is a sales job. Here's what Duke Hospital's gift shop and 1,000 customer calls at Octolane taught me: I used to work weekends as a cashier at Duke Hospital's gift shop to pay bills. Multiple times a day, someone would snap at me over a $3 greeting card. It was

18 months of not giving up, now Octolane AI growing faster than ever. Here's everything we learned the hard way: 1. Product-market fit isn't found in analytics. It's found in sales calls. Every "no" teaches you what people actually want. Every "yes" proves you're onto

Deploy API networks ⚡️ Designs for real-time visibility in Unkey With chronark Oguzhan Olguncu James Perkins