SaaStr 841: Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.
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The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
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How did Clay evolve from paying for claymation blobs to powering growth workflows for companies like Cursor and Figma?
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This is trying to understand who's signing up to your product, figure out if they are a good prospect, qualifying them. And then trying to score them to determine how good of a prospect, where they land. And this is by the way workflows that Anthropic, Figma, Cursor are all using Theta Power. And then like if they you know who they are, they are a good prospect, you've qualified them accordingly. How do you then create some language for them over LinkedIn or email or whatever to reach out to them and get them going? You know, and then do that very quickly. And so that's what you're trying to accomplish here in like one comprehensive order. Uh Hey Sasser, imagine having agents for every support tab. One that triages tickets, another that catches duplicates, one that spots churn risk.
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Everyone, welcome back. No. I'm excited for here. He came all the way from the States for you guys, so give him a round of applause. Just by show of hands, who's seen like a clay billboard, any clay anything? Okay, you got some fans already. Let's go. All right. So we're excited we have room here today. We're gonna take some questions. So if you wanna send me your questions on the live stream, uh we'll do some spicy questions at the end. Yeah. Okay, great. And keep it, we wanna make this very engaging. We wanna make this very You know, conversational and interactive. So, you know, bring out your hardest hitting questions like Yeah. All right. So this will be fun. So For those who maybe don't know Clay yet or haven't seen the Billboards.
you know, a re bit of a reputation for like going viral, doing all these like crazy marketing things. Like I know you guys have sent people like clay figures of themselves. Like you've done a bunch of crazy things. Like, is this just you telling the team? Like where does the and your shoes are even like his shoes the shoes are braid. His shoes are breaked. Yeah. Like everything is brand. So like where does all that come from? Well, may maybe I'll just explain Clay for just a a minute while I have some baseline and understanding if you if you aren't familiar. Uh basically we are trying to help everyone in this audience grow their business. At the end of the day, everyone here has a TAM. You're just trying to find the delta.
And the only ways you can do that are by converting your inbound, by going, getting outbound, or taking your existing customers and expanding that. And we help you do that by giving you all the data providers in the world. giving you LLMs to improve that data and by data points that no one would ever have, like is a company SOC2 compliant or is it BDV or something, or something way more interesting. And then we let you use those as primitives to run growth campaigns and the most creative growth campaigns. And we can talk about some of those.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Clay evolve from paying for claymation blobs to powering growth workflows for companies like Cursor and Figma?
0:01–6:40
2
Why is brand core to Clay’s identity and how do creative campaigns like CFO roast videos capture mindshare?
6:40–15:57
3
What is the inbound qualification workflow demo and how does AI‑powered scoring, meme generation, and research briefs fit together?
15:57–26:54
4
How does Clay’s waterfall data‑sourcing and enrichment process achieve high‑coverage prospect data?
26:54–32:41
Speakers
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