Matt Sawyer Co-Founder & CEO of Kleene.ai talking all things data and how automation is key to our future
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Fireside with Founders & Leaders
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In this weeks episode, we are joined by Matt Sawyer, a former employee at companies including Just Eat & Trainline, now Co-Founder and CEO of Kleene.ai.
We talk about Matts time working in his former companies and how that shaped his journey to becoming a founder.
In this episode we also discuss;
- Lowering the barrier to entry to centralise data and surface it back to the business for meaningful use.
- Meeting his co-founder Andrew Thomas at Just Eat whilst they were on their growth journey
- The only slight regret is not starting the business sooner
- Mapping out the business on beer mats whilst in the pub
- Being settled in the rest of your life to allow you to take the plunge and start a business.
- The journey of a bootstrapped startup
- A newfound respect for salespeople
- Hiring remotely during COVID
- A Constant learning process
All this and more so tune in to hear all about it!
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