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Nicole Baer

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426 total appearances

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The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

Um, in terms of like, what happens after, so we, you know, someone is a lead for us and they talk to a salesperson, they get a demo, like what's, what really, like, how does that conversation go?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And how should we think about how we structure the next conversation that happens?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And instead of that being sort of what it used, what it would have been in the past, like you might've maybe listened to some calls.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

It would have been a little anecdotal.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

You have talked to salespeople, um,

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

Instead, they did this massive analysis of all of our chorus calls with this core audience.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

They looked at Salesforce data.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

We looked at essentially any surface where we could glean information around the

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

how these discovery calls tend to progress into deeper sales conversations to understand what kind of assets we should be applying to those conversations.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

What kind of technical person do we need to have in those calls or not?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And they did this beautiful Claude analysis that basically outlined for us specific with like a degree of precision that was pretty insane.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

This basically is 80% of what happens in your first call always.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

Wow.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And here on the margins, this is how... These are what the margins look like.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And it was phenomenally insightful.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And I'm very proud of my team for doing work like this.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And they're just... They're getting in there and just doing this themselves.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

Sometimes I just ask a provocative question or like...

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

Our CEO will ask a provocative question like, well, what, you know, could we do X, Y, and Z?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Carta’s CMO Reveals What’s Really Happening to Startups

And they go find ways to interrogate it in the data using massive analysis that before would have required weeks, consulting firms, you know.