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Software engineer at Windmill. Taking a programmatic approach to GTM so we can do a lot…
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisIt's very cool to see Windmill team members take on the spotlight across the industry. - Last week Ben Danzig spoke at a big event hosted by Merge - Lasse Thorenfeldt just wrapped up a webinar with TroopHR on people analytics and ONA - Nicole Alonso has set the industry standard in her dinner series - Jared Cohen and Margaret Murphy have leaned into our new street interview series Excited to see more of the Windmill team headlining events around the globe this fall.
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Ben Danzig shared thisSuper proud to be a part of the team at Windmill! It's cool to see we're not the only ones who believe in what we're doing. Hiring more now, dm me if interested.
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisI made a Claude for HR cheat sheet. 500+ HR leaders signed up for our 'Claude for HR' webinar next Thursday and I wanted everyone to have a head start. These aren't all my ideas. They're from HR leaders who've attended our events, people sharing what's working on Reddit and blogs, and some of how we use Claude internally. I just put it all in one place so you don't have to go digging. It covers: → Claude HR plugins (comp analysis, performance reviews, onboarding, recruiting pipeline, and more) → Copy-paste workflow prompts you can use today → What HR pros are building or wanting to build with Claude right now → How to set up projects, connectors, and create your own custom skills One page. Just the stuff that actually matters if you're trying to figure out how Claude can fit into your HR workflow. Image below. Save it, share it, screenshot it, print it out (do people still do that?). And if you want to see all of this (+ more) live, Max Shaw is doing a full demo on screen next Thursday walking through real HR workflows in Claude start to finish. 📅 Thursday, March 26th @ 2pm ET 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e_aXHK_X Drop a comment if there's something specific you want covered or let me know what you found the most valuable from this guide! We're building the session around people actually want to hear and learn about. Huge thank you to the people who've already messaged me with ideas 😄
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisGreat blog from Ben Danzig on how we're leveraging agents internally Windmill You’ve been using Clawdbot for a month or two now. It's sick. Maybe it's ordering Amazon packages for you, maybe it's organizing your inbox as you're reading this. You don't know how secure your setup really is. You don't really care - maybe it's running on a Mac Mini, and any damage it does is self-contained and won't have a real impact on your livelihood. You go to work, and you wish your Clawdbot could help do your job. Sadly, in its current state, any company that blindly deploys such autonomous and powerful technology is opening themselves up to a multitude of attack vectors. I'm an engineer at a startup (@trywindmill). I teased the idea of bringing Clawd into our company. I got shut down before I could finish my sentence, and rightfully so. I work with @posthog, @n8n_io , @clay , @attio , @stripe every day, and building workflows across them is necessary, but tedious to build and difficult to maintain and debug. If it was up to me, I'd have my Clawd connect to them and just do whatever I ask. I don't need rigidity, I just need an agent who has access to tools and knows how to use them. Once our "Sales Automations" n8n flow broke for the 30th time, I knew it was time for a change. I proposed buying a Mac Mini and re-building Clawdbot internally instead of using the existing blackbox made by the genius @steipete. Throughout this article, I will explain how I'm building Pim, our internal agent @trywindmill, with the hopes that other operators can use this as a rough guide to supercharge their internal operations. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eqfu9Qcu
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisThere's a lot of "what's a GTM engineer?" content floating around. Some of it is moderately useful. But if you really want to know, just look at what Ben Danzig has been building here at Windmill. He built our first internal AI agent, Pim. Pim is now literally on our org chart. Ben wrote about what Pim does and exactly how he built it. Didn't use an ounce of AI to write it. It's easily the most tactical thing I've read about a GTM project, and the fact that he took the time to go this deep is a gift to anyone building in this space. Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eJCJmjvr
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisThe last time I built a sales team from scratch, the company went public on the NYSE at a $1.3 billion valuation. Windmill will be bigger. We're building a sales team. This isn’t an experiment, we have over 100 customers and it’s working. I know because I’ve been the company's main salesperson since day 1. Windmill is building an autonomous management system. AI that handles the work of managing people so that managers can focus on actually leading them and employees can have a better experience. We're starting with performance reviews, but that's just the beginning. The vision is a platform that runs the entire management operating system. We need salespeople who will relentlessly bring autonomous management to every corner of the globe. Experience - 2–5 years of direct sales experience selling into tech companies as an AE. - Deals that require contracts and are >$25K. - that's it. Here's what I really care about. You are Competitive. You hate losing more than you love winning. You were the kid who turned every game into a blood sport.You’re always training for SOMETHING. A Winner. You have a track record of achievement, and it doesn't have to be in sales or tech. Athlete, spelling bee's...whatever. Coachable. You get feedback Monday morning. By Monday afternoon, you're better. Quick on Your Feet. When a prospect throws you a curveball, you don't freeze. You can reframe the conversation and turn it into a selling moment without missing a beat. Resilient. You get told "no" nine times and your energy on the tenth call is the same as the first. Rejection doesn't slow you down — it fuels you. AI Curious. You are constantly learning about the latest AI tools to make yourself better and want to use cutting edge stuff A Machine. You're the first one in and the last to leave. Not because someone's watching, but because that's just who you are. High Integrity. You'd rather lose a deal than win it the wrong way. You tell prospects the truth even when it costs you money, and a white lie would be easier. Humble. You closed the biggest deal of the quarter and the first thing you did was thank the engineers and product team. You're confident, not arrogant. Optimistic. A prospect ghosts you after three great calls and you genuinely believe the fourth follow-up is the one that lands. You see the opportunity in every setback. This is the best early stage sales opportunity in NYC. The early team will shape everything. If that excites you - 2 choices. Apply & hope it stands out. Apply & find a way to get in front of me directly. I respect hustle. NYC, in-office 5 days a week with the most talented team in town. Let's go. Friends, grateful for help spreading the word. Austin Scott Howard Carrie Micah Alexa Amish Andrew Bryan Dan Justin Nitesh Sid Wesley Jason Steven Joshua Tamar Christian Patrick Patrick Julia Steve David Rory Stern Brian Chad Tommy Everett Nicholas Stas Daphne Severin Shensi Bailey Steven Teddy Ryan Shamus
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Ben Danzig shared thisPerformance reviews suck. At my previous company, I watched as anxious employees and stressed managers shut down operations for a week to run a performance management cycle, twice a year. For me, this meant digging through hundreds of old PRs and presentations, and spending entire days writing a document about what I had done in the previous cycle and why I should be promoted. I put work on hold to brag about myself. I always thought this was stupid. When Mark Tanner hit me up about joining Windmill, the notion that this process was archaic and totally unnecessary in the age of AI felt obvious. I thought it was inevitable that somebody would leverage new technology to reinvent this process, and today, I’m happy to announce that we were the ones to do it. Windmill’s Performance Review product is live - shoutout to everyone that worked so hard on this!
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisMy favorite launch video of all time was for Hey - an email inbox. The video, which 5 years later has 288k views on YouTube, is a 37 minute Loom of the founder walking through the product and explaining the benefits to users. The industry has gotten away from that style of launch video, with companies spending millions of dollars to grab attention by any means necessary. As an ode to Jason Fried, here is a walkthrough of what we’re launching today at Windmill. The first performance reviews people actually like. The average manager review takes roughly 6-7 hours to complete - on Windmill it takes 6 minutes. Powered by real context (built in memory and integrations to your core systems), our goal is to save you, your team, HR and your company thousands of hours. All while creating a culture of consistent and high quality feedback. Let me show you how we do it. ***This is dummy data, I would never share Adit Pareek's real review - although he is crushing it.
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Ben Danzig reposted thisBen Danzig reposted thisAugust Recap @ Windmill HQ: - 2 new hires who have already made a dramatic impact on the product Adit Pareek and Eric Von Bevern - 45% increase in Routines run through Windmill 📈 - 24% increase in Windy chats - A few significant updates to the platform - more to come here - 1 horrible team photo - the lighting at Swingers - the crazy golf club is awful for photos - Only 2 of 28 lunches at Los Tacos, good progress from July - 17 ignored calls from Docusign sellers Going to be an exciting fall 👀
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Ben Danzig reacted on thisBen Danzig reacted on thisIntroducing agentic engagement surveys from Windmill 🎉 - Slack-native - Easy for employees to complete - Easy for HR to analyze Plus MCP support, so you can answer surveys or analyze engagement data from your own agent. Go from asking a question → understanding what’s happening → knowing where to act, faster. Read the blog post to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gRU6NGRJ And join office hours with our CEO next Friday for a live demo + Q&A: https://lnkd.in/gPiKNutK
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Ben Danzig reacted on thisBen Danzig reacted on thisSince the moment we launched Pulse, the #1 request has been: "Can Pulse run our whole engagement survey?" Well… now it can! Windy chats with everyone on your team in Slack. Hundreds of real conversations, all at once. Then it tells you what's actually going on. ✅ 7 question types (eNPS → open convo) ✅ Results by team, plus the "why" behind every score ✅ Lives in Slack, where your team already hangs out ✅ Robust MCP support No more 40-question forms nobody finishes 😅 I'll be doing a deep dive product demo in a week if you want to learn more about how it works. https://lnkd.in/ebjr7A8A
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Ben Danzig liked thisBen Danzig liked thisShoutout Cal.com (and Alina (Oz) Osborn), I'll drop off a real Windmill for you next week. If you're a Windmill customer, Windmill vendor or just a friend of the program. Come on by our office any time you're in the area. We always accept free stuff.
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Ben Danzig reacted on thisBen Danzig reacted on thisJersey Mike's Subs please sponsor Windmill. We are extremely loyal to Mike's Way
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Ben Danzig liked thisBen Danzig liked thisAbout three months late on this, but so fired up that Margaret Murphy has joined us as one of our first AE's. Maggie (aka Margaret) comes from Ramp and her claim to fame is that she has introduced 9 couples who have either gotten engaged or are getting engaged soon. Since she's started she's closed three massive deals, so I've decided Maggie may be the best connector on the planet. Couldn't be more excited to have her at Windmill.
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