SaaStr 884: The AI-First Seller: How Databricks Rebuilt Its Sales DNA at $190B with CRO Ron Gabrisko

0:00 Ron Gabrisko Returns: Sales Evolution in Two Years It's now official. Today's guest Ron Gabrisco is the greatest CRO to ever live. He joined Databricks. It's sub 1,000,000 ARR as CRO. Databricks is now a $200 billion company, many billions of dollars of ARR. 0:21 This is a special episode in that Ron is the sales leader that all sales leaders look up to. In Data Bricks is one of the most successful technology startups of all time. Ron, welcome to the show. Excited for the conversation. 0:36 Speaker 2 That is a great introduction, Sam. Excited to be here. Thanks for having me. 0:41 Speaker 1 All right, I don't mean to over promise. I will. Actually, we will both over promise and over deliver on this episode. I'm sure of it. Yeah. So let's see, I looked at my calendar last we recorded. We've done this pod once, you and I. We recorded on October 24, 2024. 1:00 And for folks listening, that was a great episode if you want to go back. But man, we live in a different world than we did exactly 2 years ago. You know, there's a saying that's something like some decades, nothing happens in some weeks, entire decades happen. 1:16 It feels like every week over the last two years has been a version of that. So then that that's where I want to spend much of today's time. So there are a few categories. I'm seeing major changes in sales and go to market relative to two years ago. 1:32 Maybe we start with people. If you look at your leaderboard at data Bricks today, top sellers, the things that they're doing, the characteristics or profiles of those people, and you go down the leaderboard. What, if anything, has changed from two years ago when we last recorded? 1:51 Speaker 3 You're listening to the official Saster AI podcast brought to you by Today's episode is brought to you by Stack Adapt, the AI powered marketing platform that allows you to plan, execute and analyze both owned and paid media campaigns from a single platform. 2:06 Episode Break As the world of advertising continues to evolve, catch up on Stack Adapt Innovation Forum event to hear from its Co founders, Open AI and other industry leaders about the shifts reshaping digital advertising, the AI innovation striving them and what they mean for marketers. Watch it for free at go.stackadapt.com/forum. 2:25 Hey everybody, starting a business can get expensive fast. Website here. e-mail somewhere else. Business phone with another provider. Northwest registered agent gives you a complete business identity in one place with free tools, resources and built in [email protected]/saster freethatsnorthwestregisteredagent.com/saster. 2:49 Free SAASTRFREE. 2:54 Speaker 2 First of all, a lot of things are the same and a lot of the things are different, right? 2:59 Databricks' New Top Seller: AI-First and Technical So a lot of the things that are same are they still need to do amazing prep for your customers, develop amazing relationships, research your account, have tremendous grit and EQ and IQ and all those kind of things. 3:14 The things that have changed are you have to be AI first in this world. You need to use AI to understand the customer, to develop demos. A lot of our AES, we're pretty technical as far as a sales team, as a field organization, but every single one of them, we run data bricks on data bricks. 3:38 They use Genie on their phones, Genies our product, and we're selling Genie to every single customer, right? So they need to be able to develop demos themselves, be able to use the products, be very technical, but also AI now is ACEO level initiative, right? 3:57 And so be able to talk to CE OS and talk about business outcomes. And so you end up having to up your game tremendously in this world. And it's just, it's moving crazy fast. I've never been more excited to be at Databricks and be in this market. 4:14 But those are some of the things that I see are different is you got to be AI first. 4:19 Speaker 1 It's awesome all. It certainly reinforces our experience here. Monaco, my experience here is something like the top performers because we have a bunch of the folks that were at the very top of the leaderboard at my prior company, Breck's and others that we've hired from. And it's often times some of the same people and those people have evolved. 4:38 But there are also some new people who are seeing at the very top of the leaderboard that maybe in a world even just two years ago might not have been at the very top. And it is this, I would describe it as almost go to market engineer quality where they're very AI curious and they come into demos in a lot of what they are showing is that the sort of technical guts, you can tell I'm a non-technical go to market leader by that language of the product. 5:10 Like really getting into the weeds in ways that historically speaking, myself as a seller and the sellers that I've seen at the top of leaderboard, they're capable of doing that. So then any thoughts from you there? And then also, how do you test for that? How do you solve for that? 5:26 How do you enforce it within the team? 5:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, I know. First of all, that's what I was saying on the technical AI first front is literally we have a ES building their own demos like specifically for say Pepsi or Rivian. We're showing them this is the art of the possible with our platform, right? 5:46 And we're doing that in every single industry. So you have to understand the industry 1st and then understand how tech and then also build the demo using obviously we use Genie to do that. So it's very tech forward in terms of how we sell, how we test for that is we literally have folks now do OK, give me your vision, pick an account, give me your CEO level AI pitch for that company. 6:16 It needs to be industry specific, how we can transform your company, how we can transform your industry. And then on top of it, we say, oh, by the way, here's Genie, here's access to it, build us a demo and then walk us through the demo and some of the outcomes of that. 6:32 So we're actually testing real time for the qualities we want them to have in front of customers. Obviously we're doing back channels and we hire from networks and things that we know great sellers, but those are the things we're testing during the during the interview process. 6:51 Speaker 1 It's great. We think today and gosh, everything is moving so fast. Our interview process, it is a bit of a sort of build us these agents and maybe even build us agents inside of Monaco. How would you go about doing these sorts of things? 7:08 So interview process is definitely evolved. One of the things that as we're sitting here is a take away for me. We can certainly be doing a better job of almost like what I would categorize as enablement. But there is a version of like enforcement within the team where it's we have sellers that go into calls and they are doing things from a technical standpoint that historically speaking, no seller that I've ever worked with would be able to. 7:32 And we should probably do, and this is maybe a take away from me, we should probably do something as part of onboarding that is like a a sophisticated test for this. Before you can even get on a demo, you have to be able to, I talked about like getting into the guts of the technology and showing it and describing how it works and those sorts of things. 7:50 We can be doing a better job on the enforcement side of things there. 7:53 Speaker 2 For enablement, we invest a lot in enablement. We have boot camps upfront to make sure. Again, we're going through the entire company products, but we'll certify on the pitch. One of the things I see in today's sales too is we need great storytellers. 8:13 A lot of people are getting away from the traditional tell me a big story of the art of the possible CEO level. So we're certifying on those pitch pitches. We're certifying on these genie demos, these industry based demos, we're actually during certification throughout the year on that stuff. 8:30 So it's really important that just like any other board, I was a baseball player, right? You got to do something 10,000 times before you become an expert. So you got to practice 10X more than you play, right? And so I expect our folks to be the best of the best sellers on the planet. 8:49 And you got to test for that, you got to enable for that, you got to train for that, you got to mentor for that. So it's a big part of our organization for sure. 8:58 Speaker 1 Makes perfect sense. I think logical progression here. 9:03 AI Boosts SDR Productivity and Seller Customer Time One of the things that I've benefited from and observed evolving is seller time. There's always been an understanding that the highest ROI of a closing reps time would be meeting with customers, building relationships, customer facing. 9:23 That's the thing that is pretty unique and the folks that are at the top of the leaderboard often times are exceptional at that activity. One of the things that I've observed that's unique to today's environment at Monaco, again relative to my time as CRO at Breck's, our reps are spending far more of their time customer facing. 9:46 If I think back to what what were the best reps at Breck's doing? They were both exceptional at converting opportunities, but they also controlled their own destiny and created a lot of demand through their own outbound and demand Gen. activities. I'm curious if you've experienced this is one of the most mature sales organization, certainly the private company in the world, Where are your reps able to spend more time customer facing today because of the automation that's happening on the demand Gen. side? 10:16 What are you experiencing over there? Totally. 10:19 Speaker 2 Yeah. I think first of all, I think the rule with the more time you spend in front of your customers, the the better you're going to do has always been true. I always say sell from your feet, not from your seat. I think people got away from that when we went to this kind of virtual world and even our interviews, every single candidate we need to meet in person, right? 10:42 I try to push for at least 60% of our time in front of customers. A lot of the automation we're doing like we can, you can automate a lot of your account research, a lot of your upfront presentation preparation, even our proposals. We're building agents for that. 10:58 Again, it's all through our Genie app and so that should increase productivity and I have seen an increase productivity that frees up time to be in front of customers. So my rule of thumb is if Monday and Friday do all your preparation and all your admin stuff and Tuesday through Thursday, you should be on the road and in front of your customers if not more. 11:22 So that general rule of thumb I think shows success. And then up on upfront pipeline development, same thing, right? A lot of the automation you can do with AI in terms of outreach is amazing. We've been automating and building agents for that. 11:38 And that's not just the job of the SDR to reach out to new departments or new people or new stakeholders. That's the job of the AE. You're the CEO of your account, make sure you're covering every single piece of that account. 11:54 And so I just think those these tools should make every single salesperson, if they embrace them, you're more productive. 12:01 Speaker 1 Has this changed the makeup and or efficiency of your team? Does your sort of SDR or outbound organization from a headcount standpoint look similar to the way that it did last time we got up a couple years ago? 12:19 Is the efficiency on a per Rep basis doing the types of activities that are demand? Jen, how is that evolved? I'm curious again, these more mature businesses that are evolving with the introduction of AI, how is it manifesting which might be different from a company that started just two years ago in 2024? 12:38 Speaker 2 Yeah, we still have a really robust SDR team, but the productivity is out the roof, right? Like we continue to add more and more AES, more and more essays, but our SDRS for the most part are flat. And the reason for that is productivity is going way up, right? 12:56 We're trying to automate all the outbound, all the signals on certain prospects and contacts, all of our campaigns. It's pretty sophisticated now where you can get personalization down to the person, right? 13:13 The productivity is out the roof for us. We happen to be in, I think one of the hottest markets of all time with data and AI. But in lots of people are interested in learning more about data bricks. But productivity based of our SDRS from these tools has gone way up. It's, it's definitely something if I, if we started the company I have, I say I'd build a demand Gen. team and I would build these tools, but I'd keep it pretty lean and mean because I think a lot of the tools are out there to be able to scale this pretty fast. 13:48 Speaker 1 And so that maybe take away there is in a mature business data bricks. We didn't shrink the size of our SDR team, it became far more efficient. So productivity on a per Rep basis has gone through the roof for or some version of that. And while we have scaled the closing organizations, the SDR org, the demand Gen. org hasn't scaled linearly the way that historically speaking they have. 14:13 We're able to add more sellers today with fewer folks dedicated to demand. It is my interpretation of one of the things that you mentioned there. Our manifestation of this, we have we're as a company, we started in 2024. 14:29 So we're hopefully the frontier cutting edge of leveraging all of the tools and certainly we run ourselves on Monaco. We have one SDR, that SDR produces 400 outbound opportunities a month. And this isn't some mark big marketing organization that centralized. 14:48 We didn't have anybody in marketing until two weeks ago. And so one SDR who happens to be my nephew, he is producing 400 outbound meetings every month through just like lots of automation and AI that's powering that. 15:05 And then the other thing that is happening is seller time. I referenced this thing where at Breck's the top AES were the best AES because they controlled their own destiny. They were the best at Outbound. Many times there are promotions from SDR. I agree with them. 15:21 And now the our AES, the percentage of their time that they spend in front of a customer is juiced by some massive percent. And many of them, it's certainly the ones that are closing and working with the most customers. They don't have time to do their own Outbound. 15:38 Those are maybe the two things that that I've observed very different from 2018 when I joined Breck. 15:44 Speaker 2 'S the thing you have to think about though too, is because a lot of our SDRS graduate into a ES, right? And if you completely get rid of your SDR, like who's teaching these folks how to sell? Who's teaching them how to sell data bricks? 15:59 So over time, maybe that team gets smaller, but you need some type of, call it Academy that helps these kind of younger, less experienced sellers learn how to sell. And so we do that. 16:14 Obviously, I think we have the best training and mentorship on the planet, but I expect all those folks to graduate into a ES or into management as they stay at Databrick since if you're going to be lean on that team, you need a way than of how you train a ES unless we just plan to just go out and just hire folks. 16:38 But again, then I look at that kind of next generation of sellers and who is mentoring those folks, right? And I think that's a gap. And some of those sellers that are coming up through the ranks, there are some of the best sellers I have because they were born and raised with AI. 16:57 They embrace technology. They write their own kind of programs and apps using Genie and LMS. There are some of the best sellers I have. So you still have to have that kind of graduation process and Academy even if you go lean there. 17:14 Speaker 1 It's a smart insight. I was in SDR. Were you ever in SDR? 17:19 Speaker 2 Yeah, of course. 17:20 Speaker 1 OK, So we were SDRS, all of the best sellers at Monaco and maybe data breaks as well start as an SDR. I think there may be like shortcuts you can take if you're more senior to career or something like that. And we have some folks like you who graduated College in like 2024 or something. 17:36 Like they entered a world where AI had already existed. And so now these folks two years in, they've progressed their career and maybe the nuance is like the, the thing that makes these, this class of SDR now many of the best sellers is different from the thing that made maybe folks like you and me, but folks of a, a sort of prior generation that the best sellers coming out of SDR world. 18:04 Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely. 18:05 Speaker 1 Talk about a layer deeper on demand Gen. tactics. 18:10 Leveraging AI for Hyper-Personalized Demand Generation Tactics I can give my version of this. I gave this like we have one SDR. They schedule 400 meetings. We do have now a person in marketing who's awesome and then I do some marketing myself. Here's the way that I think about it and I'm curious how maybe an analogy here would be something like we started AI native data bricks is a almost 15 year old company. 18:31 Does that sound? 18:31 Speaker 2 Right, 1313 year old. 18:34 Speaker 1 13 year old company data bricks is much more like, I don't know an oil tanker that's trying to turn it be because you all about these mature processes and systems in place. I think for us on the demand Gen. side, the thing there are things that historically took all of our time. 18:53 This was the account research, finding the right buyers, looking for maybe signals, reading information about the companies, about the people customizing messages, outbounding through the form of LinkedIn and emails and whatever other channels we're trying to leverage. 19:14 All of that is automated today. And so if you're spending a lot of time on these demand Gen. activities that historically speaking folks like you and me and people on our teams were spending their time on, you're really doing a disservice to what we find is the high ROI stuff, which is just things AI can't do. 19:34 We're doing gifting campaigns that are really manual. We're throwing really high end and fun events and there is one actually that even in 2026 has not done away that still requires a human. It's cold calling. What what I think has changed is the efficiency of those cold calls serving up the right person at the right time for the right reason with the right script. 20:00 And so we're far more effective at cold calling today. But I think it's too dystopian as we sit here today. We'll do another one of these in two years and we'll see, but it's too dystopian to have. A bot cold calling today on your behalf instead of a human. So anyway, love your perspective on how has the transition been. 20:19 Talk through maybe how the automation is taking place and then anything that you're able to do today because you have more time that you've been freed up through all of the automation with AI. 20:30 Speaker 2 Listen, like I'll talk a little bit about kind of a Rep 1st and then about myself, but in terms of demand, you're right, everything is automated. You should be able to pick out the right contacts on LinkedIn. It should be able to customize your outreach exactly for that particular prospect. 20:52 All your account research, all your account background, prep docs for execs, like all that stuff. We have agents for now, which makes you incredibly productive in terms of getting meetings and trying to hit those folks versus the old days you'd put 5000 contacts in and I call it the automated spammer and I just spam everybody and hope for one or two percent response rates. 21:21 Now you can get 610% response rates because it's very customized for who you reach out to. Now, that being said, it just changes and up levels what an SDR and AE needs to do, right? I always say, as long as people are buying software, you need people to sell software because it's still about relationships and trust and explaining and coaching and teaching customers how to get value out of your software. 21:51 And so we're spending a lot more time on that, like how do we make sure we're part of the biggest, most strategic initiatives and objectives of a company? How do we make sure we're getting to the CEO, the CIO? 22:06 Now we're selling to CFOSCMOS, right? So a lot of the AI and Genie and things we've built allow us to go into the business. There's not just it, because that's the other thing that's changed in this market is the buyer persona. He used to sell tech a lot of times into IT and now all the business knows about AI and wants to build amazing things with AI. 22:30 And we spent a lot more time selling to other executives outside of IT that can we can deliver real value with. And I think that's a big change in the market. And I think a lot of the automation tools have freed up time for us to be able to take on those new persuas. 22:50 Speaker 1 It's amazing. OK. 22:51 The FDE Motion: Building Solutions for Customers So the next thing I wanted to catch up on is servicing. And the way that we service our customers today is very different from the traditional, what I would describe as CSM model that I've had a bunch of other companies. 23:09 There were like SAS companies pre AI. And the SAS model was you have a quarterly check in with the customer and you monitor their usage and you tell them about new products and make recommendations and a whole bunch more. 23:26 For now, the way that this works at Monaco today is everyone is in FDE and they come to any calls or messages over Slack or whatever it is. And it's like, hey, I, I built this thing, here is how I would deploy it for you. 23:45 Do you just want me to deploy it and you immediately start getting value from it? And so we're in a lot of ways doing the work for the customer that historically speaking, you'd go to the customer with this product and be like, you would have to do the work. So everyone is for us, it's an FDAE, so for a deployed account executive, but our servicing model is oriented around doing stuff for the customers on their behalf. 24:09 Curious how that is evolved or maybe manifested a day to Brexit, if any change at all. Yeah. 24:16 Speaker 2 Listen, the whole concept of FDEI think is exploded, right? And I think customers expect you to actually build and show them what you can deliver versus PowerPoints. I think the day, the old day of the show up with a PowerPoint is done, you better show up and show the customer exactly what you expect to deliver and what's the outcome. 24:38 And listen, it might not be on production data, but it probably needs to be on dummy data that looks and feels like their industry in that particular company. And so that's the future. And yeah, again, like our closing is like, hey, we built this, this is what we have in mind for this particular use case, call it supply chain predictions or stock out product prevention and then we'll actually deploy it. 25:06 We've done that for a lot of our big retailers or big pharma companies. I think when you're selling to the business stakeholders too, that allows them to understand exactly what you're trying to deliver versus it gave you some high level PowerPoint. Honestly, I think the messaging of a lot of these companies looks identical. 25:26 And so it's more about like how what can I do for you, what solutions can I solve and how fast can you do it and how much do I believe in you as a a reliable and trusted partner. And so I think it's completely changed in that dimension is we've always been a consumption based company. 25:44 So that's constantly what we're doing is pick out the top use cases for that industry, go sell those to the business users and go implement them as fast as possible with an FDE motion, so. 25:55 Speaker 1 What's interesting is, is we're having this conversation. We've now talked on several different personas. There's sort of the demand Gen. or SDR persona, the AE persona, the now host sales could be FDE type persona that there is one trade that is universally applicable and now required, which is you need to be like both AI curious and AI proficient in all of these customer facing roles in order to be able to perform. 26:29 And for some folks that have been customer facing these like sort of charismatic type A profile folks, that can be like a hard adaptation to make in today's world, like it hasn't been historically. And I know Databricks is that technical sellers from day one. 26:47 Databricks is unique with a highly technical product and highly technical buyer relative to most companies. Some of these folks are going to struggle adapting. And if you're listening in and you haven't yet done this, you need to force yourself, force yourself on the consumer products, deploy agents yourself, learn about these things so that you can proficiently talk about this with customers. 27:10 And then again, do all of the work that we're describing on behalf of your customers. 27:15 Speaker 2 Yeah, embrace it. It's here. It's here to stay. It's the future. If you want to continue to build and grow your career in sales, you need to embrace these AI tools. Every single one of my reps has to get certified on Genie, has to be able to create these apps and demos themselves, and like, that's the next generation of where sales is going. 27:40 So just embrace it. It's going to be really important for the future for sure. 27:45 Speaker 1 Last topic, you touched on this just a moment ago. 27:48 Databricks' 13 Years of Usage-Based Pricing Wisdom Databricks is in an interesting position. Most companies that are 13 years old in this world of software, the majority have not benefited from the sort of platform shift or advent of AI. 28:05 And you see that manifest in a lot of publicly traded SAS companies who are seat based pricing. Now data bricks is a beneficiary from AI for a bunch of reasons, but one of them is this consumption based pricing model that you alluded to. 28:22 I think for folks today where this is new, Monaco included, you're starting, most companies today are starting on usage or consumption based. That's a a different world then existed even just a few years ago. Any just the learnings that you've experienced through now 13 years of evolution as a company that you could impart on folks that maybe are less proficient in usage based or consumption based pricing. 28:48 What are just some principles to live by as it may be a market leader in this category? 28:54 Speaker 2 Yeah, great question. I think one of the smartest decisions we made was based in the whole company on kind of usage and consumption, right? Because as data grows, data Ricks grows. As queries grow, data Ricks grows. And so I think you need to look at what is your, the fundamental thing is look at what's your base unit of how you provide value and then how does the market view that unit? 29:18 Do you think it LMS, they pick tokens early days. I spoke with some of the the coding folks and I was like, they're all user based pricing. And I'm like, you're never going to be huge unless you go to usage based pricing. 29:33 Everything went to usage based pricing now on tokens, right? So similar to any other kind of startup or early business, find that unit, whether it's consumption, compute, what have you, that scales over time that equates to value for your customer, right? 29:49 For us, it's dollar D views, which is consumption or what have you. And so I think that's really important. And then break down that unit based on based on how you can add value to it. So if you're adding different products or different features, should have a multiplier on that base unit or an add on to that base. 30:05 The ultimate pricing algorithm is how do I match price to value. If I over price value, no one's going to buy it. If I under price, I'm going to leave money on the table, find that base unit and then put incremental multipliers or other products on top again based on that base unit. 30:23 For other things that add value, could be security, could be some kind of accelerator, could be some type of premium support product. All those things are multipliers on that base unit. And So what that does, and especially if you look at for us in the world of data and AI, always say we were doing AI before AI was cool, right? 30:42 Like we kind of created data science and machine learning and now AI, we partner with all the big AI companies. It's all about context, like how do you connect AI to data? And so now AI and agents to us, it's a huge tailwind because now there's going to be millions of agents, not just people doing queries and people, you know, trying to develop these algorithms. 31:08 They've all kinds of agents that want to query data. We have more data under management than any company in the world. And so that's been a huge tailwind for us in terms of AI and agents. And like I said, I think this will be the biggest data and AI company on the planet. And that's been an amazing journey so far. 31:25 That's kind of how I think about pricing. And it's super important to do that early in your company life cycle because it's really hard to switch from like a user base pricing or the wrong pricing bump. 31:36 Speaker 1 You just get one start as early as possible, but any other sort of like pitfalls that either you've seen at other companies or lived at data bricks, they could like save somebody, myself included trouble on this stuff like you. 31:53 Again, you just get one. We talked about this oil tanker that's like trying to shift to direction or something that's hard to do. And so when you're the largest SAS company in the world that has seat based pricing, really tough to move to like a usage based pricing model other than starting as early as you can, anything that like you have seen multiple folks experience that has been paying that like you can save myself and others from going through? 32:19 Yeah. 32:20 Speaker 2 Again, you're trying to equate price to value. Early days, one of the mistakes we made was we put some user based pricing on there. We put a platform fee on there like those. It turns out I would talk to customers that would be like, why aren't you ramping faster? And they're like, for every user, I'd cost me 1000 bucks. 32:37 And so I was like, OK, if I just do all the users for free, you'll just let everybody use it and they're like, sure. And so then consumption went out the roof once I did user base for free. And even if you started on the wrong path, I think you can adjust. I think the biggest mistake is not capturing value from your customers. 32:58 But I also would be careful early stage. You got to get customers on board. It's OK to, like I said, get them ramping at a low cost. You want your entry point as low as possible. So people try the product. Obviously free and all that kind of free trials and all that kind of stuff works, but you want them to get in with the least amount of spend. 33:20 Pay goes a really important model. Let them start to use the product and then once they start to love it, growing these accounts like a mushroom right now, all of a sudden instead of one or two, I got the whole department and I have multiple departments now I can go get a commit. 33:35 The other mistake I think is if you go in, you demand, Hey, you got to do a commit before you can do anything with our software. I think that's a huge mistake. You need to have some kind of pay go type models so people can try out the product even on their credit card and and go from there. 33:54 So I definitely, I see people they're trying to slam in a big deal right out of the right out of the gate. And like the biggest thing for an early company is you need logos, you need new customers. 34:07 Speaker 1 At least three tactical takeaways that all repeat back. Start as early as you can on usage based pricing. Don't mix in other types of pricing seats plus usage, they can be barriers to maximizing that usage based pricing. 34:26 And the third, remove friction from receiving value from the product that you're offering. Don't ask for really large upfront commitments around spend or usage. 34:42 Make it simple to get value on your product. You can like make it easy to start that then it will pay long term dividends in terms of usage, revenue, customer value, all of the things that create a great partnership. 34:57 Speaker 2 And I think that's true in all cases. Talk to your customers where there's friction in their adoption or ability for them to get value of your product. Remove that friction. It'll go so much faster. Like just listen to your customers on that for sure. 35:11 Speaker 1 Awesome, Ron, you're a legend. 35:14 Predicting the Next Two Years in AI and Sales Thank you for joining us today. It's been a lot of fun. I'm excited to see, gosh, like hard to predict what the trailing 24, four months have looked like. Seemingly impossible to predict what the next 24 months are going to look like. 35:30 We'll do this one again and maybe even before then, but it's been awesome. Thank you for your time and we'll talk sometime soon. 35:38 Speaker 2 Loved it. Thanks, Sam. Appreciate you having me on the show. And yeah, let's talk again in another couple years, man. I'm sure that the entire world would change, so I'm excited about it. But thanks for having me. It was fun. 35:48 Speaker 1 Sounds great. You're the best. 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