Keep pulling the thread on James Cadwallader.
Profound successfully converted all 12 CMOs who attended a company-hosted breakfast into customers within a two-month period.
The primary method of information retrieval on the internet is shifting from traditional "Blue Link Search" to conversational AI for the first time in 25 years.
Jubin, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, considers Profound to be one of the fastest-growing companies he has ever seen.
The shift from search to conversational AI is the biggest platform shift in internet history, making AI's portrayal of brands a boardroom-level concern for companies globally.
James Cadwallader believes ChatGPT will become the stickiest product in human history.
James Cadwallader predicts that e-commerce transactions will eventually occur directly within LLM interfaces like ChatGPT, citing developments like OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Google's AP2.
After its Series A in January/February 2024, Profound revised its financial forecast upward by 4x by April/May 2024 due to unexpectedly high market demand.
Profound has hired Mark Ebert, who previously scaled the go-to-market function at 6sense to $250 million in revenue, to lead its own go-to-market team.
The consumer shift from traditional search engines like Google to AI platforms like ChatGPT for information discovery is an irreversible trend that will only continue to grow.
Sequoia Capital led Profound's Series B funding round.
Profound's new London office will focus on go-to-market functions, while its San Francisco office will be engineering-focused.
Profound is an AI visibility platform designed for the "zero-click internet."