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Zack Kass

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500 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And then there was no debate that ChatGPT would be a product, but then the question is, when will it be an enterprise product?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

How long will it take to turn into an enterprise version?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And that took some time for all sorts of reasons.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

But the actual remit did not change, right?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

It was get this technology into the hands of the enterprise in safe and effective ways.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

The truth is ChatGPT became important to the enterprise because the API is still and remains, to a certain extent, hard for people to figure out how to use, right?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

How it fits into the business is still tricky for a lot of traditional companies.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

Whereas ChatGPT, I know where to put this AOL, this magical AOL instant messenger.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

The story I tell is fairly vulnerable now, which is my parents got sick.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

I actually was not well.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

I had run so hard and so fast that I felt like I was burning out.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

But then my parents got quite sick.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And I woke up one day and was like, I don't want them to die not having spent material time with them.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And I actually moved home.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

and moved home to Santa Barbara and moved in with them to support them both.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

They've gotten sick sort of in different ways at the same time.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

Ostensibly took a sabbatical and never went back.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And it was a long time before I was willing to talk about this story because I think for a lot of people, they could not comprehend it.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

And for me, I was basically espousing the importance of community and talking about how important it was in a future of abundance that we actually

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
OpenAI's Former Head of GTM: What Leaders Get Wrong About AI & What’s Coming Next | Zack Kass | E142

care deeply about the spaces in which we live and the people that we live near.