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S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI

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S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI

Pooja Brown grew up in India, and now lives in San Francisco. Her family ran manufacturing factories that made fertilizer and medicine - IE real products, real customers, and real consequences when a batch didn't ship. She grew up learning that a product was not done until it was in the customers hands. She came stateside for university, and never left San…

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  1. What Is a Tribe AI Minimum Viable Product? at 0:00

    Pooja Brown says a minimum viable product at Tribe AI is a real product doing a job people usually do by hand. It is not a demo and it is not a pilot. Full answer

  2. What Is a Real Product at Tribe AI? at 7:24

    Pooja Brown says a real product at Tribe AI is the first use case in production that does real work. People usually do the job by hand. Full answer

  3. How Much Autonomy Should AI Agents Get? at 10:07

    Pooja Brown says the first trade-off, made every day, is how much autonomy to give the product on day one. Full answer

  4. How Does Tribe AI Decide What to Build Next? at 16:34

    Pooja Brown says Tribe AI decides what to build next from two places: how frontier models are developing, and the outcomes the businesses they work with want… Full answer

  5. Why Does a Better Technology Stack Still Get Rejected? at 27:27

    Pooja Brown says DocuSign customers would not use a replacement platform that was much better than the last one, because she never brought them along from the… Full answer

  6. What Should a Young Founder Optimize for? at 34:15

    Pooja Brown tells a young founder to optimize for the learning. Full answer

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