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David Gudeman

David Gudeman

Co-Founder and CTO at Velocity AI, building AI-powered sales performance tools.

Aug 14, 2026

8:27
How do we create an environment where that sort of growing and re-teaming is done well?
8:35
Yeah, that's a tough one because I have really only seen that once, where the team really grew beyond kind of the initial core team, and it did become unwieldy, right? And the approach that I saw to try to manage it, I think ultimately was not necessarily the correct approach, or it was done overzealously.
9:01
So I can speak to that experience and what I think should have been done, so to speak.
9:08
As the, the team at Actim kind of grew, we added more and more engineers, and there was kind of like tribes, so to speak.
9:14
There was like data people that were, had a different stack, had a different cadence, the way they interacted with like customer success.
9:23
And then there was kind of like sort of some product which had to answer to the product team.
9:28
And so you kind of...

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