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AI, Organizational Leadership, and Scaling your Business, with Namit Jindal

People Operations Conversations · 2025-10-15 · 28 min

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Key moments - from our scoring

Substance score

25 / 100

Five dimensions, 20 points each

Insight Density5 / 20
Originality4 / 20
Guest Caliber6 / 20
Specificity & Evidence7 / 20
Conversational Craft3 / 20

Namit Jindal, founder of Aerosend IO, discusses how to scale a B2B SaaS company growing 100% month-over-month while maintaining lean operations through AI and automation. Aerosend helps businesses send highly personalized cold emails at scale - they process 1-1.5 million emails monthly for clients. Rather than hiring traditional customer support staff, Jindal automated 85-90% of support conversations using Intercom and custom models trained on historical customer questions, eliminating the need for two full-time support employees. Marketing and growth are driven almost entirely by cold email outreach (requiring just 2-3 hours weekly), while engineering stays lean under his technical co-founder's direction. Jindal advocates automating repetitive, low-value tasks - from onboarding sequences to email management - so founders and teams can focus on strategic, high-impact work and hire exceptional talent at above-market rates. He acknowledges the uncomfortable truth that AI will displace routine jobs, but argues that highly skilled people will be rewarded while mediocre performers face displacement, creating demand for strategic roles that leverage human creativity and judgment.

Key takeaways

  • →Automating repetitive tasks like customer support (85-90% automation possible) and administrative processes frees founder time for strategic work and enables hiring of high-level talent at premium rates.
  • →AI-powered customer support and onboarding (chatbots, automated emails, WhatsApp messages) provides 24/7 response capability and reduces human error while improving customer experience.
  • →Rapid scaling without proportional headcount growth requires systematizing all repetitive processes - from customer conversations to email management - to maintain founder effectiveness and operational efficiency.
  • →The future of employment will reward high-performing strategic workers extensively while those doing mundane work without going above and beyond face displacement; AI amplifies existing organizational productivity gaps.
  • →Cold email personalization at scale (handling 1-1.5M emails monthly for clients) combined with founder-driven growth channels reduces dependency on large marketing teams and produces 95% of company growth.

In this episode

  1. 1Introduction to Namit Jindal and Aerosend IO
  2. 2Scaling Challenges with 100% Month-over-Month Growth
  3. 3AI and Automation for Customer Support and Operations
  4. 4Benefits of Automation: Cost Savings and Strategic Hiring
  5. 5Job Displacement vs. Higher-Order Opportunities
  6. 6The Future of Work and Organizational Efficiency
  7. 7Short-term Goals and Strategic Focus

Mentioned

Aerosend IONamit JindalIntercomGoogleMetaWhatsApp

Guests

Namit Jindal

Topics in this episode

Workflow automationCustomer support automationgenerative AICold email personalizationSales automationIntercomAerosend.iojob displacementcold email marketingAI-powered chatbotsscaling startupsGenerative AI automationCustomer support chatbotsSales operations automationSilicon SlopesGoogle Search evolutionTask displacement and AI adoptionFounder-driven growth channels

Questions this episode answers

What is Aerosend IO and what problem does it solve?

Aerosend IO is a B2B SaaS platform that helps businesses send cold emails that land in the inbox by specializing in highly personalized, relevant outreach. Jindal previously ran an agency handling 1-1.5 million cold emails monthly before launching the software product four to five months ago.

How does Namit Jindal automate customer support at Aerosend IO?

Jindal fed all historical customer questions and support conversations into an AI model (initially Intercom, then a custom solution) trained to handle common inquiries, automating 85-90% of support conversations and eliminating the need for two dedicated customer support employees.

What routine tasks does Aerosend IO automate to free up founder time?

Aerosend automates new user onboarding (WhatsApp messages, thank you emails, founder contact info), email management, and other repetitive processes. This automation allows Jindal to spend just 2-3 hours weekly on growth activities that generate 95% of the company's growth.

How does AI automation enable Aerosend IO to hire strategic talent?

By automating 80% of repetitive operational tasks, Jindal can redirect resources to hire extremely smart, strategic people and pay them above market rates from the start, rather than spending money on low-level operational roles.

What is Namit Jindal's view on job displacement from AI?

Jindal argues that mundane, repetitive jobs will be automated away, but highly skilled people will be in demand and extremely well-compensated. He contends that mediocre performers who don't work efficiently will face displacement, while exceptional talent will thrive in strategic roles AI creates.

What our scoring noted

Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.

Insight Density

5 / 20

The episode is dominated by the host's lengthy restatements and tangential monologues (Utah's Silicon Slopes, Google's origin story, five-year planning philosophy), leaving only a handful of genuinely operational data points from the guest. Actionable insights per minute are extremely low.

I spent two, three hours a week on that and like that gets 95% of our growth
85%, 90% of our support conversations are just handled automatically. You only need or someone higher up to handle the remaining 5 to 10%

Originality

4 / 20

The episode cycles through entirely recycled narratives: AI replaces mundane jobs, hire smart people and pay over market, five-year plans are too rigid, shiny object syndrome is bad. There is no contrarian framing, no first-principles argument, and no claim a B2B operator hasn't heard dozens of times.

it's pretty common that about half the employees do 85% of the work. Like, there are a lot of studies on that
you can't just like, it's just so inefficient doing it with like, way too many people

Guest Caliber

6 / 20

Namit Jindal has three years of cold email agency experience and a software product that is only four to five months old - he is an early-stage solo founder, not a proven operator who has scaled a business to significant headcount or revenue. Practitioner knowledge is real but narrow and unproven at scale.

we went public with the software four to five months ago and we've been growing 100% month over month since then
I've been in the sales cold email space for like three years now

Specificity & Evidence

7 / 20

A handful of concrete figures appear (800K - 1.5M emails/month for agency clients, 85 - 90% support automation, 2 - 3 hours/week on growth driving 95% of results, 100% MoM growth) but there are no revenue numbers, no team headcount, no named compensation benchmarks, and no third-party verifiable data. The specificity is thin overall.

we were sending anywhere from like 800 to 1000 to like a million, million and a half cold emails a month for our clients
now 85%, 90% of our support conversations are just handled automatically

Conversational Craft

3 / 20

The host consistently answers his own questions, delivers multi-paragraph monologues restating what the guest just said, and never challenges a single claim. Questions are purely leading and softball, functioning more as cues for the guest to affirm the host's own views than as probes for deeper insight.

not only are you saving on people labor costs, uh, because you can Automate it, but you're, it's just easier to access
I try to imagine, you know, kind of an old school agency doing similar things that you're doing, but they're not leveraging these technologies

Conversation analysis

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Episode notes

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Namit Jindal about AI, organizational leadership, and scaling your business. Namit Jindal runs a software company called Aerosend.io. They help B2B companies send cold emails that land in the inbox. They specialize in facilitating highly personalized emails that are relevant to the audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Full transcript

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Namit Jindal: Yeah, excited to be here.

Host: It is a real pleasure to be with you. You're joining us from India. So it's evening for you, it's morning for me. I'm south of Salt Lake City in Utah, and today we're going to be talking about AI, uh, organizational leadership and scaling your business. A fun topic. I think a lot of people are in this space right now trying to navigate this disruptive technology and the implications it has for a lot of different aspects of their business. But, you know, today we're going to focus particularly on leadership and people management and those aspects that, um, you know, are challenging when you're scaling, you know, and we'll talk about it in a few minutes. But, you know, your organization is scaling very rapidly, um, which brings with it all sorts of people, uh, management challenges, uh, and issues. And how can you, how can you manage that more effectively and how can this new, the new tools available via large, uh, language models and generative, uh, AI. How can it assist you? So that's what we're going to explore today as we get started. I wanted to share Namit's bio with everybody. Namit Jindal runs a software company called Aerosend IO. Uh, they help business to. Business companies send cold emails that land in the inbox. They specialize in facilitating highly personalized emails that are relevant to the audience. Um, um, and like I said, tremendous growth. Would you mind telling us just a little bit more about that and highlighting anything else from your personal background, um, that you would like the audience to know about?

Namit Jindal: Yeah, for sure. So I've been in the sales cold email space for like three years now. Ran an agency for the first couple of years, actually for the last three years now. And yeah, it was interesting. Learned a lot about cold email in general. Got very deep into the space. At one point, I think we were sending anywhere from like 800 to 1000 to like a million, million and a half cold emails a month for our clients. So group rematch. That was interesting. I always loved software. So we went public with the software four to five months ago and we've been growing 100% month over month since then.

Host: Yeah, that's incredible. And, you know, not, you know, a lot of people in the audience won't necessarily relate to, uh, the business that you do. Um, you know, everyone's received, um, those emails and nobody likes spam emails and nobody wants things that aren't personalized. And so finding a way to, to have outreach and do it in a more personalized way that resonates with the receiver. Obviously that's going to be so much more powerful, uh, for, for any organization, you know, that would be your client. Um, and so, you know, that could be intriguing to people. Uh, but what I'm really interested in is this, this 100% month over month, you know, growth, uh, which is, is really insane. Like, that's, that's hard to keep up with. So when you start with a pretty lean team, um, you know, a founding team, you start to add in key people with areas of specialty. Um, you know, you wear a lot of different hats, you do a lot of different things. Um, you can, you can easily influence the culture that you want to have. But when you start to scale at that level, it brings with it all sorts of potential challenges. Uh, maybe you could start by just identifying, you know, for us, you know, some of the, the things that you're dealing with. Um, you know, in some cases it may be challenges that you're not quite sure how to respond to. In other cases, maybe, maybe you have a good answer, maybe you figured it out and you know, you know how to scale effectively, um, at this rapid pace.

Namit Jindal: Yeah, I think like, so the way I see the team, um, we kind of divided into two parts. So there's engineering, which is mostly handled with my tech by my technical co founder. He's super experienced. He knew exactly who he needed to hire. So that was like lean. That's always been lean. Um, the second part was marketing, sales, growth, customer. And that was mostly handled by me. Growth is mostly attributed to cold email. I've been doing it for three years, so it's really, really easy for me to set it up. Uh, honestly that like, I spent two, three hours a week on that and like that gets 95% of our growth. Right now, uh, we've been building more of marketing and stuff. And I guess that's the next step where like, I'm kind of writing the playbook, but we'll have like one or two extreme, extremely smart people basically automate 80% of the process and just focus on the strategic parts.

Host: Yeah, incredible. So that gets into this AI conversation. Um, you know, around automation, I, I would imagine if you're able to automate 80% of, uh, of these tasks and, and to be able to do, you know, to grow so rapidly while, you know, putting three hours in a week, you know, at something like that, obviously you're leveraging these tools, um, and you don't have to give away all the secret sauce here, but like maybe outline for us, uh, some of, uh, your approaches and like some of the tools that you use the most or anything like that you think would be helpful.

Namit Jindal: Yeah, I'm obviously, um, happy to give all of all my secrets here to uh, hopefully help someone. But I think it varies department by department. So I'll give you like the two most common ones that almost everyone can use and then we'll take it from there. So. And this, this isn't even a just good ops at this point. And like running an agency, you kind of learn all that stuff because you need to be lean, uh, to be profitable, but a, like customer support. Yeah, we just wrote every single question we've gotten on a sales call on customer conversations in our initial days, fed it into a model. I know there are softwares out there that do it really, really easily. We used Intercom for the longest time and then we built something custom. And now 85%, 90% of our support conversations are just handled automatically. You only need or someone higher up to handle the remaining 5 to 10%. And that's when there's like serious questions for the product. Like ours, most of the customer conversations happen automatically. That I would say, like, replaces the need to hire two customer support employees. Other than that, like, in terms of ops, you got to think about like, hey, like, what is it that you do manually? Or like, it's just a repetitive process. For example, like every time anyone signs up on our platform, we send them like an WhatsApp message, a thank you email, my personal phone number. Hey, if you need anything, let us know that part. Like, I see a lot of companies doing that manually and I think about a founder's time, right? Like, my time is essentially one of the most valuable times, like when it comes to group, that's all automated. So I don't need to look at that. Um, I don't waste time on the m. Uh, stuff like, just check my email once in the morning, once in the evening, unless urgent notifications come up and stuff like that.

Host: Yeah. And on that note, um, you know, one of the things that's just so great about the customer service aspect or like this direct outreach to people who sign up, uh, immediately. It's just, it's in real time, right? So it's, it's fast, uh, it's accurate, um, because you're able to train, you know, the, the chat bot, the model that you're using to be able to respond to the common questions and um, you know, so not only are you saving on people labor costs, uh, because you can Automate it, but you're, it's just easier to access. So, so anyone having a, an issue, you know, they don't have to wait until like working hours 8 to 5 or you don't have to have like a night shift staff, um, you know, to be able to respond to people in real time to the questions that they have. They can get answers at any time to anything almost immediately. Um, and they're, and you know, for the most part it's going to be accurate. You're going to fine tune that over time. Of course, you know, if there's issues. But um, you know, the human error that can occur with a, with a person responding to those calls, who's getting trained and is new and whatnot, you know, that's probably more likely to have more errors than the chatbot. And so that's awesome because it's efficient for you, it saves you money, but it's also super helpful, uh, for clients and anyone who needs customer support. Uh, having automated outreach when people sign up so that you get those emails, you get the WhatsApp, you get whatever onboarding that they need. Um, that's awesome too because like you said, you're a founder, your time is best spent doing strategic stuff. Pretty much everyone on your team, their time is going to be best spent doing more creative and strategic stuff. Um, and any of this automated stuff, you can absolutely, uh, leverage these different, uh, technologies and the different softwares or AI, um, to be able to help with it at least, uh, to make it more efficient. So I think I try to imagine, you know, kind of an old school agency doing similar things that you're doing, but they're not leveraging these technologies and then comparing them directly to, to you and the rapid growth that you're having. It simply wouldn't be possible, right, um, to kind of take an old school Luddite approach where you're not leveraging all these technologies, um, and to be able to grow and scale and be profitable in the way that you are. Uh, can you talk to that a little bit more?

Namit Jindal: I mean, like, I think it's not just agencies at the point, right? Like it's like mostly bloated companies. Uh, it's inevitable at the end of the day. Like you can't just like, it's just so inefficient doing it with like, way too many people that like companies that are doing it like, are just bound to die slowly by doing this research. Like, I think like, there are a lot of companies that do it way more efficiently than I do, I'm not like 100% that. Uh, but like we just have such a good strategic advantage and it helps to grow so much faster. Like I know there are certain things that will never break, whether we're at 200 customers or 20 customers. And it's just an advantage. We remove the human error component and yeah, and the people like that allows us to hire extremely strategic people, like extremely, extremely smart people, and pay them from the beginning, way over market.

Host: So let's, let's double click on that and drill in on that a little bit. Because you uh, know people in some cases rightfully so, but people are fearful of this techno technological disruption, you know, job displacement, task displacement. Are they going to be able to get positions? And, and you've already identified like there are some kind of low level repetitive types of positions, especially in customer service that you don't need.

Narrator: Right.

Host: Because you, you literally are able to replace people who traditionally would have been in those roles with uh, the technology that can do it more efficiently, uh, more timely, uh, more accurately. Right. Um, and that's true, that is happening. And in some roles there is displacement and there will continue to be displacement. But what you're highlighting is the flip side of the coin. And that is when you free up resources from doing the mundane, the repetitive, uh, those sorts of things, when you free up those resources now, you can invest them more strategically at high levels. And so you're able to hire people, you know, for the types of jobs I think most people want to do. Like most people don't want to show up and read a script and answer calls all day. I've had that kind of job before. I've had that a couple times when I was much younger. And those are not fun jobs. You know, like I would not want to live my life doing that job for the rest of my life. It was fine as a young college student working my way through college, but um, you know, there's, there's more out there. As we get more experience and we learn more, we can leverage that, our strategic humanness, you know, to higher order types of tasks and, and other things that are going to help our organizations grow better. So I love that, you know, you're not just, you're not just taking cost savings, labor cost savings from the automation and pocketing it. Um, but you're also reinvesting it, you're reinvesting it into strategic positions that are really going to help the organization be successful. And I think that's, I think that's the mindset shift That a lot of people who are fearful about these technologies need to have one. They need to figure out how are they going to remain relevant, um, in a world with these technologies, um, you know, because they're not going to be able to just do the mundane, repetitive things over and over again. All that is going to be automated pretty soon, if it's not already. Um, but, you know, if it can, can gain the skills to be able to leverage those technologies, they're going to have more fulfilling lives, more fulfilling careers, because they're going to be able to focus on, on higher, uh, order things and in more m. Meaningful, creative, innovative and strategic things. Uh, and there's going to be even more positions and opportunities for those types of people, uh, which I think is a net positive overall, even though that there is discomfort as people are making that transition.

Namit Jindal: Yeah. So, um, the way I think about it, and like, the harsh truth is not all jobs can be replaced. Like, I don't buy into the notion that, like, yes, AI will replace jobs, but new jobs will come up. And another harsh truth is essentially, like, all the mundane jobs, like, people who have not been working efficiently at work, people who don't want to go over and above, they won't have a place anymore. Like, essentially. Like, when you think about a big organization too, it's pretty common that about half the employees do 85% of the work. Like, there are a lot of studies on that. So the other half definitely is like, in somewhat of a danger here. Yes. Like, people who are really, really smart will get overpaid extensively. And then you have like. And if you think about it, right, like you have like, Zuckerberg offering hundreds of millions of dollars to, like, extremely small engineers. So, like, yes, like, you're gonna be getting paid what you're worth for sure.

Host: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's super interesting. And it leads to all sorts of other, I mean, beyond organizations, it leads to societal, uh, public policy conversations, societal shifts, all that. Like, all of that's, you know, in the water right now. And it's, it's gonna be ever more present, you know, um, in the coming years and decades as we, as we go through this shift, for sure. Um, but, you know, in the meantime, let's, let's. It's here, it's happening, right. Like, we can't stop it. Um, you know, we can try to be responsible with the use of technology, uh, and be responsible and ethical and strategic, but. But we can't. You know, we're not just going to like, put the genie back in the bottle. So we have to figure out how are we going to um, better leverage it, um, and be effective and, and have the skills to be able to um, work within this new world of work, to be able to function in the new world of work. Uh, and a lot of what you're describing in your organization is highlighting uh, some of these themes which I just think is super helpful. Um, you know, where I, where I'm at in Utah, so you know, you have Silicon Valley in the Bay Area. Everyone knows it. Um, but not as many people know that here in Utah, you know we have a very strong tech sector. Uh, and we have what's called silicon slopes. So it's another tech hub. We have, you know, tech unicorns. We have lots of entrepreneurial activity, lots of investment, um, and, and some big tech companies headquartered here. And, and there are other hubs like that around the US or different parts of the world, right? Different cities that have um, different, you know, real active hubs of, of this type of activity going on. Um, and so the reality is, um, let's, let's dive in, right? Let's dive in. Let's try to learn how to, to be part of, you know, ride the wave of all this entrepreneurial activity. Um, and you know, you never know who the next big Google is going to be. Right? I still remember, and you may remember this too, but I still remember, you know, back the first time I ever did a Google search. Um, you know, it was probably around the year 2000 or so, which I think Google started technically a little bit before then, but hadn't been widely um, accepted, you know, widely um, adopted. And I just remember, you know, the first time I did that and how quickly it started to take off and following the growth over the last 20, you know, two and a half decades or so, um, it's incredible. And, and they were a small little operation right at the time M. Now they're you know, huge and ultra wealthy and so impactful. Um, you never know what the next company is going to be that's going to do that. Um, and so yeah, we just, we do the best we can. We can't, we can't see the future. But we can try to look at trends and we can try to understand past performance and how that might indicate future potential and those types of strategic um, approaches and areas of focus need to just continue as we move forward. Tell us maybe in some of the remaining time that we have, you know, some of your, your mindset and goals around the next say two years or five years, uh, as you continue to grow rapidly, maybe even expanding, um, to other types of product and service offerings, those sorts of things.

Namit Jindal: Ooh, interesting. So I think I can tell you the next short term goals, which makes sense but like life changes so fast, it's like it's hard to make the next two year goals, so.

Host: Yeah, yeah it is, yeah.

Namit Jindal: Uh, next six months, main focus from my side is the company itself, like Aerocent. I think I'm spending 95% of my time in general at Aeros and remaining 5% miscellaneous and the remaining time is sleeping. So it's growth from my department. That's what I'm focused on. Focusing on, uh, a lot of new channels that I'm learning. So that's where kind of like personal. That's the main goal here. Um, overall as a company I want to build a product with the best deliverability possible. So viewers might not know this. Like when it comes to cold email, the biggest and the most complex challenge is battling Google and Outlook to make sure your emails are actually landing in the inbox.

Narrator: Right.

Host: But they don't land in spam.

Narrator: Um, right.

Namit Jindal: But those of you like this is an interesting assignment actually like just go like, especially if you have like some form of an executive title, just go check your spam folder. It's crazy. Like they're gonna be like 10x the of emails in that folder. And like our biggest battle is how do we take legit business emails and make sure they land in the inbox versus like even those emails going to spam. So that's been like a constant back and forth battle. So that's what I wanted to build the best product around that possible in the next six months to one year. Um, we'll see after that what the future takes us. There are a lot of possibilities in terms of like where I see, I see myself building our own servers, data centers. That's definitely one possibility. I do see a big use case when it comes to cold email in general for AI. Obviously a lot of other companies are doing this, but maybe I'll explore that depth once I've fought this pattern.

Host: Yeah, yeah, very cool. And you're right, like it's so hard, you know, to plan, you know, given the rapid pace of change. Um, it highlights something else for me. Um, you know, many organizations kind of the old standard was have your five year plan, your five year strategic plan. People start to realize that's, that's good but you know, especially if you have no strategy like that, that's a good place to start, but uh, but it's too rigid. Like things change too rapidly. And so then people started, instead of doing like a fixed five year plan, they started to put in place like a five year rolling strategic plan. So it could, you know, have having iterations and updates every year kind of a thing. The reality is we're still in too, you know, the, the pace of change is still too hyperactive to even, uh, do it yearly, you know, and when I see organizations, you know, that are really rigid about their, their plans, you know, and it may be an awesome plan, like they, they may have put everything into it at one point. Now they have this five year plan and they're, they're implementing like clockwork and they're just, things are going really well. Uh, that's awesome. But you know, if, if you're, if you're too rigid to that, you're going to miss out on a lot of opportunities. You may implement really well what you had planned, but things change. And so there's going to be a lot of things, um, over the intervening five years that you know, even if you were effective in implementing your plan, you're going to miss out on, you know, the opportunity costs and you're going to miss out on a lot of, of things, um, that you could have done or adjustments you could have made along the way, uh, to help you be an even better position. And so, you know, I, I like the intellectual humility that, you know, that you express around, you know, the difficulty of planning out, um, two years. It's good to have a vision, it's good to have kind of a forward looking, you know, um, strategy and to be able to try to look around the corner and forecast as best you can, but also just recognize and realize, um, that things are moving so rapidly. We're going to have to revisit those plans on a regular basis and sometimes we're going to have to pivot and sometimes dramatically pivot, uh, away from what we had originally intended. Um, and the challenge with that is to not fall into the trap of kind of going to the flip side of the coin where you're just chasing every shiny object, where anytime you have an idea, you're like, oh, let's do this now. Um, because that also is not going to serve you well. So you have to find a balance, right?

Namit Jindal: Yeah, I think it just depends from organization to organization when you're as old as like Google. But we spoke about having a five year plan kind of makes sense. Like you've been around for 20 years, 25, maybe even more. And like, obviously there are organizations older than us. Like in my case, we are four months old. Five months old. Um, yes, we started building a while ago. So like, but at the same time, like, it's pretty pointless making anything other than like a three month plan for now or maybe a six month plan. Um, yeah, that was like one part of. Yeah, that's like the major part, obviously. Shiny object syndrome, big thing. Everyone has it. It's kind of like the natural thing for entrepreneurs. Once you're inside the depths of something, you just start seeing so many problems you can solve.

Host: Excellent. Well, this has just been a fantastic conversation. Um, I really appreciate you taking the time, uh, out of your evening to sit down with me and chat about these sorts of themes and these, these issues. I think it was super helpful. As we wrap things up for today, I just wanted to give you a chance to share with the audience how they can connect with you, find out more about your work, your team, and then give us the final word.

Speaker O: For sure.

Namit Jindal: Yeah, so the best way to connect with me is on LinkedIn. Um, I'm sure, like wherever you're listening to this podcast, there's going to be a link to my LinkedIn, so you can just look into that. Otherwise, like, if you need help with cold email or anything in particular, you can check out my website. Aerosant IO.

Speaker O: Awesome.

Host: Awes.

Narrator: Very good.

Host: Um, again, I encourage the audience to reach out to get connected. Find out more about what Namit can do for you, check out his organization. And as always, I hope everyone can stay healthy and safe. You can find meaning and purpose at work each and every day, and I hope you all have a great week.

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