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TAO Daily

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25 août à 11h49

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https://taodaily.io/dropbox-referral-puts-leadpoet-sn71-on-a-new-growth-path/

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<div id="bsf_rt_marker"></div> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/is-hippius-sn75-better-than-dropbox/">Dropbox</a> referred <a href="https://taodaily.io/leadpoet-sn71-takes-1-at-okx-hackathon-beating-thousands-of-entries/">Leadpoet (SN71)</a> into its channel sales partners after running the pilot internally across its own sales motion.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">That referral opens seven to eight figures of value as the platform expands into other regions and teams.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe title="An $8 BILLION Company Is Quietly Testing a Bittensor Subnet" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5mz1s3mW3tE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/tao-roundtable-leadpoets-gavin-zaentz-shares-the-recipe-for-winning-on-bittensor/">Gavin Zaentz</a>, the owner of Leadpoet, covered the referral, the outbound motion going live, and the six-to-seven figure ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) target for year-end.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Leadpoet sits at roughly five-figure ARR against $20,000 monthly burn, targeting operational sustainability by end of quarter.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Story Behind the Dropbox Expansion</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Dropbox situation carries characteristics that separate it from any standard enterprise pilot arrangement.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Dropbox is using Leadpoet internally for its own sales motion:</strong> Production workflow running through the SN71 platform daily rather than a demo or proof of concept.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>The referral into channel sales partners multiplies deal size:</strong> Dropbox pointed Leadpoet toward its own partner ecosystem for adoption across their customer base too.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Leadpoet replaces Apollo and ZoomInfo in enterprise workflows directly:</strong> Both incumbents run nine-to-ten-figure revenue businesses that Leadpoet displaces through better AI-powered lead qualification.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>Expansion trajectory leads to seven or eight figures of value:</strong> Cross-region and cross-team deployment inside Dropbox alone represents that revenue scale.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Each dimension compounds the base pilot into a channel play with much larger economic implications behind it.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Outbound Motion Just Went Live</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everything before now was inbound-driven, meaning customers came to Leadpoet and not the other way around.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Five-figure ARR built entirely from inbound traction alone:</strong> Customers found Leadpoet through Bittensor community channels and general product awareness.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>The AI agent now handles source, qualify, engage, and outreach directly:</strong> New functionality lets Leadpoet run its own outbound flow using its own product on real leads.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>V2 platform launch is coming ahead of outbound scaling globally:</strong> The team wants outbound tested internally before pushing the next platform iteration into the market.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>Target (six to seven figures ARR by end of year 2026):</strong> The transition from inbound to outbound is the growth lever driving second-half revenue expectations.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Running outbound themselves generates real production feedback on the exact product they sell to other B2B teams.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Economics Behind Leadpoet</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Leadpoet operates lean by design, prioritizing sustainability over splash spending common in most crypto-adjacent startups.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Monthly burn sits around $20,000 covering salary and infrastructure:</strong> The team keeps operations tight pending the time they are able to prove revenue growth.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>Break-even target by end of quarter from customer ARR alone:</strong> The goal is covering the entire burn rate operationally without depending on subnet emissions.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>The founder holds no $TAO, only $SN71 in personal savings:</strong> Personal capital fully allocated into the token they build, signaling conviction.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>Revenue reinvestment prioritized over immediate profitability:</strong> The market opportunity is worth billions, so growth investment beats short-term profit extraction.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">How Bittensor Fits Into the Product</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bittensor is the R&amp;D engine improving the sales agent daily.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Miners direct research loops around signal sources and routing logic:</strong> The mining competition generates diverse perspectives on which signals genuinely indicate purchasing intent.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>The current incentive mechanism resists gaming that plagued previous iterations:</strong> Adversarial competition improves the product without encouraging gameable metric.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Daily benchmarks prevent model overfitting across the mining rounds:</strong> Constant evaluation ensures the agent improves and not drift into local optima nobody wanted.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>The bigger vision is a sales-brain LLM inferenced into Salesforce and HubSpot:</strong> Leadpoet wants its underlying model powering every major sales platform.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The subnet architecture gives Leadpoet an R&amp;D engine no traditional B2B software company could afford to build alone.</p>