Run the Numbers
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How AI Is Rewriting Product-Market Fit, Pricing, and Go-to-Market

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CJ sits down with Rebecca Schwartz of Tabs, Fred Havemeyer of Fleet AI, and Rahul Rekhi of Rogo for a live conversation about what it actually takes to build an AI-native company.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Preview and Intro

1:16 Welcome to Run the Numbers

3:17 Meet the Panel: Rebecca, Fred, Rahul

9:52 How Rogo Found PMF

13:47 How Tabs Found PMF

14:51 Growth Rates: Headcount and Revenue

16:23 The Real Hiring Constraint

17:21 What "Forward Deployed" Actually Means

18:53 What's Blocking AI Adoption Now

20:19 How Sales Hiring Has Changed

24:34 How Go-to-Market Has Changed

25:28 Pricing Models: Then vs. Now

28:18 Tabs' Pricing Evolution

29:20 What the Finance Team Looks Like

31:00 How Far You Can Push Outsourced Accounting

32:43 Managing AI Gross Margins

35:07 The North Star Metric for AI Companies

37:02 Token Spend vs. Per-Seat Pricing

39:34 Asking Better Questions: What Counts as ARR

41:38 Biggest Bug in Cash to Collections

43:05 Closing Advice for Founders

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