Eric Rea
Recent posts focus on product & building, AI & automation and hiring & team.
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At the beginning of this year, we announced internally that 2020 would be our ‘Moment of Truth.’ Little did we know just how accurate that would be. Over the last three weeks, we have seen more traffic through our platfo…
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At the beginning of this year, we announced internally that 2020 would be our ‘Moment of Truth.’ Little did we know just how accurate that would be. Over the last three weeks, we have seen more traffic through our platfo…
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We just crossed $100M in AI agent ARR in under 24 months. Not because of a viral launch or AI hype. But because of a crazy bet we made in 2023. At the end of 2023, over 60k local businesses were using Podium to central…
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We just crossed $100M in AI agent ARR in under 24 months. Not because of a viral launch or AI hype. But because of a crazy bet we made in 2023. At the end of 2023, over 60k local businesses were using Podium to central…
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I recently got a text from a friend who owns a restaurant. He had a kitchen full of food that was going unused, and rather than waste it all he asked if he could drop it off for my family. That gave me an idea. The ne…
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THIS is the kind of customer message that I love to get. Chad and his wife, Stephanie, run TodayAir, a family-owned HVAC shop in Alabama. In his 20 years in HVAC, he’s seen FSM implementations take seven months and four…
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We have more than 18,000 AI agents working for customers right now at Podium, and every week we're learning things that can make all of them better at their jobs. We built a system called Edge to do that. Edge looks ac…
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Last week Dennis and I sat down with Yossi on the Car Dealership Guy podcast. We talked about the scrappy early days of Podium, when we’d walk into dealerships, find the GM and convince them to let us sit at their desk…
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Earlier this year, my wife and I decided we wanted to buy a Ford F-250. It needed to fit the two of us and our four kids, so a front bench seat was a must. I also wanted as many options as possible, which made it a prett…
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3 years ago Cortney Hall came to Podium HQ and told me we needed to build for medspas. My first reaction was no. We had a couple hundred medspa customers at the time, but honestly, it wasn’t a main focus. We were focuse…
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Yesterday, one of our HVAC customers turned on an AI employee we call Membership Coordinator. Its whole job is to reach out to every member in their maintenance program and book the visits they already paid for. Somebod…
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Best three weeks for my DMs in 12 years of building this company. Most of the owners we're demoing right now want to move. And in almost every conversation, the same question comes up: Is the migration going to destro…
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Best three weeks for my DMs in 12 years of building this company. Most of the owners we're demoing right now want to move. And in almost every conversation, the same question comes up: Is the migration going to destro…
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Matthew McConaughey was unavailable. Fortunately, we’re pretty good at AI. Introducing Podium Operator for automotive.
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Matthew McConaughey was unavailable. Fortunately, we’re pretty good at AI. Introducing Podium Operator for automotive.
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Every piece of advice I got as a founder said that once you reach a certain size, you hand product to a professional and get out of the way. At Podium, we did the opposite, and it’s the most important org decision we’ve…
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“There is no competitor to ServiceTitan until the demo I saw from you guys today.” I got that DM this week from an owner who runs three home services brands. He sent it a few hours after seeing what we’ve been building.…
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The home services industry is at a turning point, and last week we got a pretty good look at how the incumbents are reacting to it. ServiceTitan gave about 1,000 of its own customers 30 days’ notice that they’re shuttin…
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I’m hiring for a really unique role: Founder's Associate, Office of the CEO. You’ll get a front row seat to how we’re scaling Podium and transforming SMB with our AI Operating System. Here's what you'll actually do: wo…
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I’m hiring for a really unique role: Founder's Associate, Office of the CEO. You’ll get a front row seat to how we’re scaling Podium and transforming SMB with our AI Operating System. Here's what you'll actually do: wo…
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