Pablo R Palafox
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Aug 4, 2026
0 to $1.2B: HappyRobot’s anti-Silicon Valley playbook
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Pablo PalafoxGUEST
Second of all, it's hard to provide value if you don't really understand the problem you're solving.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
It's a must, really, to go as deep as you can, especially with AI being so new to everyone.
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# 100 - Five Years of Building - Special episode with Three Amazing Founders,
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Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So we, we started building AI agents that would call drivers to see where they were, which was a pain point that one of my co-founders had had in his prior life as the CFO of one of the largest olive oil distributors.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So we started with a very particular task, and then we realized that in order to serve the enterprise, in order to serve the biggest companies in our initial niche of logistics, we would actually have to build more of a platform.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So less of a point solution, more of a platform that would actually allow us to build different agents for different parts of the house.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
That was the biggest realization for us, that i- in order to work with DHL or some of the largest ocean carriers, you know, those big boats that actually move the world, billion-dollar companies that are, that are, that have a lot of smart engineers, we would actually have to build the infrastructure for them to, to build their own AI agents.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
That also real- like, made us realize, wow, we're not just building AI for logistics.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
We're actually building AI for operationally complex businesses that have to have agents coordinating work.
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Antoine LeboyerHOST
I know that you did your big pivoting when you were in the US, but did you, could you imagine you could have done the same thing by staying in Europe?
Pablo Palafox, CEO at HappyRobot: HappyRobot helps enterprises run core operations with AI
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3:33Seb DrumsmoreHOST
Uh, for those who don't know, who maybe aren't close to the business, can you talk through some maybe, like, real-life use cases where you're saving enterprise clients time or adding a lot of value?
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So we, we think about our platform and our business really as a very horizontal product that helps a very specific set of niches or verticals.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
We go and serve all of the core functions of the enterprise, uh, from order to cash, if you will.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
From helping a customer, um, reply an email, uh, to quote their own customers or to give customer service to their customers or to, um, let's say, um, provide information of where a certain shipment is, if we're talking about supply chain, uh, onto the back office operations of reading documents, uh, collecting that paperwork and organizing that paperwork, or even collecting payments at the end of that cash piece, you know, from order to cash.
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What, what was the moment where you, uh, maybe you found product market fit or things really started to take off, where you, where, where you kind of went from building something scrappy, is this gonna work, to all of a sudden you're, like, running with the momentum?
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations
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Luis, you talked about the complexity of really mastering sales, you know? You guys started as sales and support, and so what are some of the other surprises that you've had, having started with more complexity, I think, than some of your competitors?
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So one thing that we heard from, uh, one of the largest trucking companies recently was typically when we buy technology, we see where we can a- apply that.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
With you guys, we actually have a problem, and we come to you guys with that problem because we know that as a platform that you've built, we can pretty much build any type of agent for our operations, from sales to customer service, back office support, and, and operations, and even collections.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So some of the use cases that customers came to us were, "Hey, we have a huge collections problem.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
Can you build an agent to reach out to customers via email or voice and collect money?" We're like, "Of course." Uh, we talked about this use case with one of our largest, um, um, supply chain companies and cust- customers, um, where we need to call customers to recover duties on parcels.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
And today we're running campaigns of 20 to 50,000 daily, um, outreach to customers, collecting duties on parcels that otherwise they would not get if they don't pay the duty on the parcel.
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Google's Antitrust Victory | Aparna Chennapragada, Richard Socher, Pablo Palafox, Will Bryk, Charlie Wu
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Pablo PalafoxGUEST
So, we define it as a layer of interaction, layer of, um, of connectivity, if you will, that sits on top of the actual data that already exists today.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
You can have a, a transportation management system, a, a, a warehouse management system, an ERP.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
If you're talking about the shippers and distributors, today we serve multiple verticals within supply chain.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
Uh, shippers is one, freight brokers is another one, ocean carriers is another one, right? But, but right on, right? Like, this is exactly what we're doing.
Pablo PalafoxGUEST
We're building that layer of interaction so that users don't have to go and look for that little detail on the TMS, "Where the ship-


