Rippling的动态

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Hi, I'm Anna, I'm CEO of. Nowadays we're building an AI copilot that automates the Bourne parts of planning corporate events. Our AI contacts venues by e-mail and phones, get availability, deal with all the back and forth negotiations and then because that's the best option. So our team is worse sisters who graduated from MIT and Johns Hopkins both served as class presidents of our universities and organized large scale events at Google and Facebook. I sent my last year at MIT basically planning events. I was spending my weekends calling ice cream trucks and doing back and forth negotiations with the Boston Aquarium and realized that it was just a lot of manual logistical work. And so we realized that planning any types of events, especially corporate events, is a logistical nightmare and. We wanted to help automate it. So typically our customer, our chief of staff, CEO's, anyone who's planning your corporate event, we're focusing on high growth startups. So Series A to D startups are the main customers right now. One of our customers is Super Base and we've planned events for them ranging from 100 to 200 people. Initially when we had started the idea, it was actually just an AI copilot for a personal assistant rather than just about planning. And the reason why is we both really loved about planning, but we weren't sure exactly where this space was yet. But when we launched, somebody actually paid $500 out of their own pocket for us to plan their 15% off site because her boss had basically volunteered her do it and she had an entire other job to do. So that really helps validate that people wanted this service. And so we started moving that direction. One of our biggest challenges that we're working on right now is actually learning when to say no to customers because we realized that with events, there's so many nuances and figuring out what is scalp and what's not. So building quickly to see if something is automatable or not, and if not, pivoting and saying no to a customer on that aspect in the future. We chose to go and Rippling because that allows us to focus on building our company and know that payroll and back office work is taken care of by Grappling.