跟读练习: Announcing Profound's Series C: $96M at $1B Valuation - 通过视频学习英语口语

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ProFounders raised $96 million at a $1 billion valuation to build a marketing platform for the age of AI.
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Our round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners alongside Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Avantik.
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Since we launched 18 months ago, we've had two core beliefs.
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First, every marketer on the planet will care deeply about how AI talks about their brand, products or services.
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Today, thousands of businesses, including 10% of the Fortune 500 and some of the biggest agencies on the planet,
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rely on our platform to understand and control how their brand shows up in AI answers.
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And we've gone on to become the number one leader in answer engine optimization on the G2 grid, which really showcases our obsession with building technology that our customers love.
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Our second belief is that every marketer will use AI agents to do great work faster.
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That's why today we're excited to announce Profound Agents.
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The world's top companies have already embedded Profound Agents throughout their marketing teams,
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from SEO to content to PR and even demand gen. And the results so far have been remarkable.
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We believe that this level of depth will birth a new kind of marketer.
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For instance, let's say a sentiment agent alerts us about a surge in negative chatter about our Salesforce integration.
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So engineering ships a fix.
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I orchestrate three highly autonomous, profound agents to directly influence AI's understanding of our updated integration.
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The first agent creates positive user generated content by finding users benefiting from the new integration improvements
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and drafting emails asking for authentic G2 reviews.
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Another identifies the top-sided articles causing sentiment to drop, finds the authors, and then drafts personalized outreach with suggested positive corrections for the new integration.
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And the final agent optimizes our own content by updating CMS articles to reflect the integration improvements
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and then pings the content team for review once staged.
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The best part?
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Profound agents work within your existing tech stack because we've built partnerships with companies that you use daily.
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Just like Gamma, which let agents take AEO data from Profound to create detailed reports and presentations to share with your team, saving you hours of time.
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And with Sanity, reducing manual work by having AI agents draft and stage content directly near CMS.
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So all you have to do is review and publish.
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And Vercel V0, for demand gen teams who are bottlenecked by developer resources, can now ship highly relevant landing pages based on profound topics,
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prompts and other data in just a matter of minutes.
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Hundreds of teams at companies such as MongoDB, Figma and US Bank are now using profound agents on a daily basis to do more.
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If you would like to try out one of the most popular Profound agents with no strings attached, simply comment the word agents below and I'll personally DM you access details.
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By working across your stack, we believe that Profound agents are able to 10x the productivity of the modern marketer.
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Engineers have cursor, lawyers have Harvey, and marketers have Profound.
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Today, we're also excited to announce Profound University, a series of certifications, courses,
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and cohort-based learning that will turn you into an expert in building, deploying, and managing agents.
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Through education, events, and a sophisticated partnership program, we're building a global community of marketers that want to redefine the way they work.
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Today's Series C announcement really is just the beginning.
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We want to say thank you to our customers and partners for allowing us to be here today.
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So, with all that said, let's get to work.

关于本课

在今天的学习中，您将通过观看一段关于Profound公司获得融资的信息性视频来练习英语听说能力。本课旨在帮助您提高理解技术领域相关对话的能力，并练习如何用流利的英语表达想法。您将能够通过模仿视频中讲解者的语速和语调，来增强您的发音和口语技巧。这是一次很好的机会，结合听力练习和口语练习，提升您的英语能力。

关键词汇与短语

  • 营销平台 (marketing platform)
  • 人工智能 (AI)
  • 品牌 (brand)
  • 用户生成内容 (user generated content)
  • 情感代理 (sentiment agent)
  • 集成 (integration)
  • 内容优化 (content optimization)
  • 生产力 (productivity)

练习技巧

在练习时，建议您使用shadow speak的方法对照视频进行模仿。视频中的讲解者语速较快，因此可以将视频分成几个部分，逐段进行跟读。注意语调和重音，尽量模仿讲解者的口音和语气。开始时，可以把速度调慢，以更好地理解和模仿各个单词。随着练习的深入，逐步提高速度，以接近原视频的语速。

同时，可以结合看YouTube学英语的方式，通过重复观看来提高记忆。如果某些短语或表达方式让您觉得困难，请专注于这些部分，并多次重复，直到您感到舒适为止。这样做会有助于您在实际交流中更自然地使用这些专业术语，并在英语口语练习中不断增强自信心。

最后，参与对话或讨论时，尝试使用视频中的词汇和表达方式，这将进一步提高您在实际情况下的应用能力。

什么是跟读法？

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。