A System of Agents: Our view on how founders can jump on a $4.6T opportunity. 👇
When @JayaGup10 and I first outlined the Service-as-Software framework months ago, we knew we were describing something transformative. 🧵
Insane morning. Hydroplaned on 280 and spun across 4 lanes of traffic, somehow ended up on shoulder facing traffic. Miraculously unscathed.
What saved me: having done track day in the rain, which brought a moment of familiarity as I was spinning.
Advice: do track day, stay safe
107 yo grandpa with late stage heart failure: still fighting and in high spirits. Gave me a long lecture about lifelong learning.
2024 resolution: be like grandpa; never stop learning!
SF’s hottest nightclub: @ycombinator office on a Wed night where investors and founders bump into each other and you can valet your cybertruck.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
My mother, one of the most disciplined women I’ve ever met 👇🏼. She started learning ballet when she turned 60, and this is a result of many years of daily, repetitive work. Proud of and inspired by her!
Her cat, on the other hand, is not so disciplined. 😼
When @JayaGup10 & I first wrote about the service-as-software shift 6 mos ago, we had some ideas about how it was playing out in the real world. Now, after talking with 100s of startups, we’ve outlined a framework that brings service-as-software to life: a System of Agents.
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Many VCs are talking about AI taking a bite out of services. None have quite nailed the enormity of the opportunity.
My colleague @Jayagup10 and I dug in.
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More 💰 for all the entrepreneurs that make our dream jobs possible. Ping us if you’re changing the future with automation, AI, and solutions that lead to employee and customer happiness!
More thoughts on agents, based on a talk by @yoheinakajima
As AI shifts from tool to actor, those who can balance autonomy with safeguards will benefit most.
Full analysis here 👉foundationcapital.com/the-paradox-of…
In China private companies are forced to magnify the government’s message. Never in a million years would a private company be able to silence the leader of China and the CEO not “disappear.” We are so far away from becoming China. Just the opposite in fact.
