Why AI Sales Should Make Selling More Human with Swetha Puvvada

AI sales is often framed as replacement. Swetha Puvvada sees it differently: the real opportunity is using AI to remove the busy work so sellers can get back to listening, understanding pain, and having better conversations.

Swetha is Head of Product & Growth at Teameight, an AI SaaS company building an augmentation platform for sales teams.

We talk about product, GTM, customer feedback, career growth, mountaineering, and how she went from early-career intern to owning product and go-to-market inside a startup.

We also discuss:

• Why AI should augment sales instead of replacing sellers

• How Teameight helps ramp new sellers faster

• Why negative customer feedback is useful when it is specific

• What makes someone a good salesperson

• How Swetha moved from internship to Head of Product and GTM

• Why younger talent needs broader product and systems thinking

• How mountaineering teaches trust, risk, and preparation

• Being one of the few women in tech and mountaineering

• Why taking opportunities matters more than waiting for permission

Swetha links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swetha-puvvada/

Teameight: https://www.teameight.ai/

Jason links https://linktr.ee/admin