Mar 21 2025 67 mins 94
Elias Torres is the Co-Founder and CEO of Agency, the AI agent for customer success teams. Prior to Agency, Elias was the Co-Founder of Drift, a company he sold to Vista for $1.2BN Before that he started Performable, which he sold to Hubspot.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
03:50 Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders: How Backgrounds Shape You
06:23 Speed: Why are Incumbents Slower than Ever
10:00 Quality: Why are Incumbents Worse than Ever
25:34 Why Was Selling Drift For $1.2BN a Massive Failure
33:30 How Did a Cushy Culture Kill Drift
37:01 What They Never Tell You About Selling for $1.2BN
41:08 How to Hire F******* Rockstars
46:52 The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in Hiring
54:52 Everything You Think You Know About Working Parents is Wrong
01:02:00 Quickfire
