There are 367 people I want on my podcast, and I finally know which ones are never going to say yes. Booking a guest for us is a sale. We are constantly pitching companies like Google DeepMind and Anthropic to have their leader on my pod and then we  wait for months. Some guests literally take over a year to close.  Let me show you how we run the whole process. The board lives inside Hubspot and is kind of fascinating to look at: 154 conversations open.  47 still in outreach. 107 in negotiation.  31 people who already said no The crazy thing is that based on this list AI can actually come up with a lot more names that will be a good fit for us. HubSpot’s Prospecting Agent went through the entire base and came back with 20 names nobody on my team had touched. - Nikesh Arora, Arvind Krishna. The Agent already spotted the pattern of guests we are looking for and now it extrapolates this pattern to come up with more. Even better, it helps me draft outreach that’s personalized to each gu...