Vertical SaaS and E-Commerce. Currently CEO @ Koronet - SaaS, Ecomm and Payments for B2B Floral Industry. Former Pennsylvanian.

Joined January 2018
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I've decided to start a personal blog/website to start collecting my thoughts on building companies, fostering amazing teams and finding good product fit. I'm hoping it can be a good repository for things I'm seeing in my day-to-day as a CEO. chrisbeals.com
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I put together some thoughts on how to quickly get more advanced using AI agents, build a stable foundation and not over-engineer your setup. The most impactful step is getting an agent team that debates output. chrisbeals.com/symptom-first…
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This was my 4 month evolution for the AI agent setup I use as my Koronet CEO cabinet project. Each rung, what came next and why, and the research it builds on. Wrote it cited so it's safe to feed your agents — they should come back with concrete upgrades. chrisbeals.com/the-compoundi…
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What it feels like kicking back watching your 5 AI agent teams go nuts incinerating tokens.

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Some thoughts on the real blockers to getting teams to really advanced AI agent utilization. I feel like for mid-level employees. It’s more of an issue of training on how to split tasks and proper delegation than it is a technical problem. chrisbeals.com/four-tiers-ai…
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Another week of blowing through my Claude usage limit way too early in the weekly cycle. It feels like there’s been a quiet drift upwards in token burn for the same tasks on a week over a week basis.
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I've been thinking a lot about lately is the absolute explosion of vector data AI is creating and the mass transformation of ephemeral data (e.g. phone calls) into permanent AI transcripts. I think we see earth changing litigation on this soon. chrisbeals.com/the-case-for-…
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I've decided to start a personal blog/website to start collecting my thoughts on building companies, fostering amazing teams and finding good product fit. I'm hoping it can be a good repository for things I'm seeing in my day-to-day as a CEO. chrisbeals.com
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And I welcome suggestions for topics to cover.
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24 Jul 2023
I predict one of the non-obvious byproducts of AI will be a push into much deeper investment into vertical SaaS - especially on industries with nuanced supply chains.
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24 Jul 2023
You can’t use AI to effectively reduce spoilage of perishable products if you don’t have clean digitization and inventory management for those product.
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24 Jul 2023
Whether it be produce or recyclable materials, far more of the steps are manual or low-res due to incompatible systems, bad data or on-Prem solutions
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23 Feb 2023
Excited to come aboard as an advisor to @JasonVego and his team at Bevz as they build out their SaaS and e-commerce solution for convenience and liquor stores.
23 Feb 2023
I'm excited to welcome Chris Beals, the former CEO of Weedmaps, to our Bevz Board of Advisors! I met Chris through the Techstars Los Angeles Accelerator. Chris has extensive experience bringing integrated technology and e-commerce to thousands of retaile…lnkd.in/gQD-6bPM
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18 Dec 2022
A small 🧵 : Most of the takes on Twitter seem to focus on change to technical org or him cutting fat. But #Twitter is overwhelmingly ad revenue based and there’s been little talk of how well (or likely poorly) Twitter is selling ads (and thus making revenue).
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18 Dec 2022
So bottom line - most large marketing departments would pay a premium on ads to not work with an advertiser they dislike or perceive potential PR risk in associating with.
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18 Dec 2022
And the discounting in the value advertisers ascribe to the ROAS on Twitter ads doesn’t bode well for Twitters revenue.
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