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Valerie retweeted
“Contour just obviously solved a problem that was unsolved and you got a demo of that and said I wanna use that”
"it's so easy to build a make-believe version of how someone will use your product"
asked @barrald, CEO @_hex_tech, ex-@PalantirTech, what actually makes a good FDE
Valerie retweeted
the @nrmehta interview
00:00 Intro -- Meet Snickerdoodle!!
00:56 Nick's World Post-Gainsight
02:30 Building Gainsight ($2M TAM to $1.1B Exit)
06:32 How Gainsight Built Community (The First Events)
11:41 What It Takes to Create a Category
14:38 Does Every Company Need a CSM? (The Snowflake Debate)
17:41 Professional Services vs. Forward Deployed Engineers
21:26 The Five Landmines of Scaling a Deployment Team
26:23 Why Trust Beats Every AI Tool Right Now
28:10 Inside Gainsight Atlas: AI-Native Services
31:57 The Future of Systems Integrators
34:40 The Goldilocks Problem: Product vs. Service
38:12 Can a Company Be Both Software and Services?
39:05 The Future of Post-Sales
40:53 What Actually Makes a Great FDE
43:01 Nick's Biggest Lesson From His First 10 Years
44:21 Building a Human-First Culture
Find The Last Mile Podcast on spotify, youtube, and apple!
we finally have a podcast!!
conversations with the people shaping deployment engineering.
Our co-founder @ivory_tang sat down with @nrmehta (former CEO of Gainsight, $1.1B exit) for the first episode of The Last Mile, Contour's new podcast.
They got into the CSM → FDE shift, how deployment work is actually different from professional services, where systems integrators are headed, and what makes an FDE great in the AI era.
Valerie retweeted
Cognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke.
If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited.
Valerie retweeted
Claude Fable 5 is actually a beast for web design.
this guy just dropped a full guide on how to design and build interactive animated 3D websites with Claude Code + Fable 5
(complete prompts in the comments)
watch the video and read the full guidelines on the article below
prepping for a 100+ person event in SF with @contourai_ x @chemistry
gonna be a fun night of poker with FDEs ♠️
Valerie retweeted
so hyped, we have 100+ FDEs signed up for our poker night this thursday... @DecagonAI @cognition @rox_ai @getserval @SierraPlatform and many more
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