180 VCs rejected him—then a $60K billboard got him to $2M ARR in 4 months. | Isaiah Granet, CEO of Bland AI

Isaiah pivoted mid-YC, landed in the bottom 10% of his batch, and watched 180 investors say no—their reason: phone calls won't exist a year from now. Voice AI was not yet a thing. With almost no money left, he and his co-founder bet everything on building AI phone calls from scratch. Bland went from pre-seed to a $40M Series B in a year. In this episode, Isaiah breaks down how a $60K billboard and a strategic influencer campaign generated close to a billion impressions, why he fired 50% of hi...