Adit Abraham had never worked in sales. Now he’s helping his sales team prepare for enterprise deals.
His advice to founders is pretty direct. Don’t avoid something because you’re bad at it. If it’s a skill you can learn, that’s a problem you can do something about.
I went INSIDE Reducto with Adit and Raunak Chowdhuri, who’ve raised $108M, including a $75M Series B led by a16z, to turn complex documents into data AI can use.
From deal prep to engineering meetings, we spent the day seeing what that looks like in practice.
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Watch the full INSIDE Startups episode here.
00:00 Introduction
01:30 On the way to meet Adit
02:35 Taking public transport to the office
05:02 Inside Reducto’s office
06:14 How Reducto works alongside frontier models
07:36 Why paperwork still slows businesses down
09:06 Sales meeting: competing with Microsoft
11:05 Keeping sales up to speed with new products
11:35 Why founders stay involved in sales
12:37 Engineering meeting
13:42 Building r-1 and expanding the product
14:38 How to measure accuracy
15:48 Team all-hands
17:02 Building customer demos without coding
18:40 Live product demo: parsing and extracting data
20:02 Advice from the founders