Anis Bennaceur (Attention) - Raising $17M to reinvent B2B Sales with AI 🦄

From hacking servers at 13 to building the world’s most powerful AI sales agent.

Anis Bennaceur is the cofounder & co-CEO of Attention — the AI-powered platform transforming sales conversations into growth engines.

We sat down with Anis on Zero to One to unpack his journey from early Tinder to Mixer to leading Attention, now trusted by 200+ companies.

🎙️ What we cover in this episode:

🧠 Why automating unstructured data changed everything

📈 How Attention boosts conversion and forecast accuracy for sales teams

🤖 What GPT-3 unlocked for sales automation in 2020

💥 The Ahah moment that shaped Attention’s product

💡 How to find a startup idea in boring industries and broken workflows

💬 Why founders must talk to users — and set daily meeting quotas

🧪 A tactical framework to test startup pain points: frequency × effort × cost to business

💡 Plus:

Why some spaces are growth arbitrage traps — and how Anis chose long-term defensibility over short-term hacks.

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https://youtu.be/l6JarW21qqA?si=v3twrXFh4aZlQdXx