How a Head of Ops at an AI Startup Hires, Uses AI Tools, and Thinks About Pricing (with Grant Rivas)
Grant Rivas, Head of Operations at Antimetal, breaks down with David Nebinski how he hires 'Founding' roles at a fast-scaling AI startup, why he switched his AI tool stack from Claude to ChatGPT/Codex, and how he's thinking about usage-based and outcomes-based pricing in the AI era.
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Episode highlights:
01:00: Grant’s music + events background
05:45: An overview on Grant’s role as Head of Ops at Antimetal and how he joined as one of the first business hires
09:00: How Grant is spending a lot of time on hiring and how he evaluates talent
13:15: How he hired another ops person to work with him
19:00: Deep dive on AI pricing models
25:00: What a design partner is when building a startup
27:45: Why you want to build a product, not a services shop, as a startup
28:15: How he uses AI as Head of Ops and why he switched from Claude to ChatGPT
34:00: Tool churn and portability
36:45: How he has grown and learned a lot in his role already
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