Manny Medina is the founder of Outreach, a sales management software unicorn. He grew up in Ecuador and has one of the most interesting and unlikely paths to start up land that you will ever hear. In our conversation, we get into how he charted that very unlikely path,. Some of the low moments including living in a very small foul smelling apartment in the early days of the company. We're going to take a little detour from our normal fare of AI and try to live forever.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Manny Medina, chief executive of Outreach, to talk about how artificial intelligence is invading the sales business (2:30), why it will enhance humans (6:10), growing up farming shrimp in Ecuador (7:45), communism (9:30), coming to America (11:45), his original startup idea, and abandoning it (14:50), why his capitalist life does not conflict with his communist upbringing (18:50), what is happening in the economy (21:30), moving from a tiny apartment (25:20), and the power of belief (32:00).
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