Lightfield CEO on killing a 2M-MAU AI product to rebuild as a CRM from scratch
damianplayer · x · 2026-09-16
In an a16z interview, Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris explains why he shut down his AI presentation tool despite 2 million monthly users and growth outpacing inference procurement — nobody on the team liked the product — and restarted in the notoriously hard CRM vertical.
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