Profound CTO: $33M Revenue and $1B Valuation in 18 Months
ditzikow · x · 2026-08-25
The High Flyers Podcast Ep. #272 interviews Dylan Babbs, Co-Founder & CTO of AI marketing platform Profound — which grew from $1M ARR to $33M revenue in 2025 and a $1B valuation within 18 months, raising $155M+ from Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and Khosla.
- Leaving a dream design-engineering job at Uber after years of side projects
- The 3 ingredients every great startup needs; why founders should "swim downstream"
- Blowing past the original $5M revenue target
- What Fortune 50 CMOs are suddenly asking; the rise of the "marketing engineer"
- Why taste matters more in the AI era
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