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Amanda Kahlow

Cofounder, 6sense

Search every verified Amanda Kahlow interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amanda Kahlow, founder and CEO of AI company 1Mind and former CEO of 6sense, discussed her leadership philosophy and views on AI's impact in a September 2026 interview on the podcast "Leadership on New Terms." She said she stepped down from 6sense partly to prioritize starting a family, and described her approach to leadership as involving a "no [expletive] policy" and a willingness to stand up for herself and others, even if it makes some people dislike her. Kahlow also contrasted startup agility with larger companies, stating that big firms build for the "lowest common denominator" while she aims to serve more forward-thinking users. Regarding AI's effect on the workforce, Kahlow stated that AI "is absolutely going to impact everybody" and that she is "replacing jobs" at her company, arguing that masking this reality does a disservice to workers. She also criticized common AI-generated writing as full of "superlatives" and "extra," noting she considered instituting a policy at 1Mind barring the use of AI for writing, though she credited her chief of staff with pushing back on that idea.

Recent appearances

  • Amanda Kahlow: Leadership On New Terms

    AI isn’t just changing work—it’s changing what leadership, accountability, and even compassion look like. Amanda Kahlow, founder and CEO of 1Mind, reveals why the old rules of building and managing teams are already breaking, and what leaders need to do now if they want to keep up.Caroline Fairchild sits down with Amanda Kahlow, the founder behind 1Mind, an AI company whose agents can take sales calls and close deals, and the former CEO of Sixth Sense, the B2B platform that predicts what companies are about to buy. Amanda opens up about the very human chapters behind her career, from stepping…

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  • Agentic Sales: Amanda @ 1Mind

    There is no business model to put a $450K solutions engineer on every top-of-funnel call. Amanda Kahlow, Founder and CEO of 1mind and former Founder and CEO of 6sense, is changing that with AI "Superhumans" that orchestrate roughly 15 agents to solution, demo, and close across the full buyer lifecycle. One Superhuman, Nigel, joined a live meeting and helped close a $262,000 deal in 11 days. Chapters 00:00 | AI as your best seller 02:31 | Superhumans across buyer lifecycle 06:11 | Competitive landscape breakdown 09:33 | Head-to-head results vs competitors 12:58 | Nigel closes a $262K deal 17:4…

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  • Meet The World's Most Advanced AI Sales Team | Amanda Kahlow, Founder & CEO @ 1mind

    Amanda Kahlow, Founder & CEO of 1mind, joins Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman to break down how an AI-powered solutions engineer named Nigel took 33% of the talk time in a two and a half hour enterprise meeting and produced a $278,000 deal. Topics include why AI aimed at efficiency gains misses real revenue impact, Amanda's prediction that marketing, sales, and customer success collapse into one function within 12 months, and why AI adoption has to be top-down instead of bottoms-up. Plus, the 15 agents running behind every superhuman, a 98% accuracy bar measured by live evals, whether agen…

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  • 1mind’s Amanda Kahlow on Founding a Company in the AI Era vs. the SaaS Era

    From 6sense to 1mind, Amanda Kahlow has now built two venture-backed GTM companies in two very different eras. At AI✦NY, she breaks down what's fundamentally changed about building in the age of AI and what’s still the same. Follow Amanda on LinkedIn:   / amandakahlow   Stay connected with Battery on LinkedIn:   / battery-ventures   Stay connected with Battery on X: https://x.com/batteryventures Disclaimer: This material is intended for an audience of entrepreneurs and provided for informational purposes, and it is not, and may not be relied on in any manner as, legal, tax or investment a…

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  • Is This The End of Sales As We Know It? (CEO @ 1mind, Amanda Kahlow)

    Amanda Kahlow raised $30 million to build AI sales agents that improve the buying experience. As the founder of 1mind and previously 6sense, she sits at the forefront of modern go to market strategy. In this episode, Sam Jacobs, AJ Bruno, and Asad Zaman sit down with Amanda to discuss the reality of AI in the sales motion; she explains how Superhumans (1mind’s AI Agents) handle everything from top of funnel enterprise pipeline generation to acting as sales engineers on live demos. The conversation covers the technical hurdles of building high performing AI agents, why she believes buyers will…

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  • Amanda Kahlow, 1mind | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Mixture of Experts

    In this interview from Mixture of Experts at NYSE Wired, Amanda Kahlow, chief executive officer and founder of 1mind, joins theCUBE and NYSE Wired's Gemma Allen to discuss why AI-powered "superhumans" are poised to replace traditional sales teams across the entire go-to-market lifecycle. Kahlow, a third-time founder whose previous company 6sense grew to a $5 billion valuation, explains how 1mind compresses the fragmented buyer journey — from SDR to AE to sales engineer to customer success — into a single AI-driven experience that uses reasoning and contextual memory to solution-sell better tha…

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  • How AI Can Close a Complex B2B Deal with Amanda Kahlow of 1mind

    "What buyer actually wants to talk to a salesperson?" That's what Amanda Kahlow, CEO & Founder of 1mind, asked Shahin in this AI versus Sales chat. Find out how Amanda closed a $200,000 deal with the help of AI and why she thinks AI can completely take over the sales cycles with no human involved. This episode covers... Why AI Agents that do the small, simple tasks don't move the needle. What jobs will be obsolete and what new jobs will emerge? What will happen to the human relationship during the buying cycle? The next wave of AI (fully autonomous buying and selling) About Amanda... Amanda…

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  • When the Exit Isn’t the End: Reinvention, Resilience, and Motherhood with Amanda Kahlow

    Most founders talk about building and scaling—but few open up about what happens after. In this powerful episode, Amanda Kahlow, founder of 6sense and now Founder and CEO of 1mind, shares the deeply personal story behind her professional journey. From the emotional rollercoaster of IVF and adoption to what it truly takes to reinvent yourself as a leader, Amanda’s experience challenges the traditional founder narrative. You’ll hear how stepping away from her first company created space for motherhood, healing, and eventually, the spark for her second act: launching 1mind in the age of AI. This…

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  • The future of sales in the age of AI | Amanda Kahlow (1mind)

    Modern GTM teams are strapped for time and limited on resources. AI can help with both of these issues, but knowing where to double-down on new tech can be tricky. This episode of the 10x GTM podcast with Amanda Kahlow is all about the future of AI x GTM. Amanda's new company, 1mind, recently came out of stealth mode to reveal an AI tool that can tackle a wide range of GTM jobs to be done. In this conversation, Amanda shares her insights from building 1mind, including how she plans for a rapidly changing GTM landscape. We covered: Amanda's experiences as the founder of both 6sense and 1mind…

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  • Predictive Analytics for B2B Marketing // Amanda Kahlow, 6Sense [FirstMark's Data Driven]

    Amanda Kahlow, Founder and CEO at 6Sense, presented at FirstMark's Data Driven NYC on May 18, 2016. Kahlow discussed strategies for leveraging data more efficiently for B2B marketing to predict when a company has a need for a product. 6sense is a B2B predictive intelligence engine for marketing and sales. Using its private network of billions of time-sensitive intent interactions, 6sense uncovers net-new prospects at every stage of the funnel and determines which existing prospects are in market to buy. Data Driven NYC is a monthly event covering Big Data and data-driven products and start…

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  • Why Giving Back is so Important to Amanda Kahlow

    6sense CEO and Founder Amanda Kahlow explains her philosophy on giving back at Brightroll's Data Driven Women meetup.

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