Torres: Future software will eliminate human operators, functioning like driverless cars
Elias Torres · Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 21, 2025 · at 16:03
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO of Agency, outlines his product thesis for the AI era, contrasting traditional operator-driven SaaS with autonomous agentic software.
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“Software that has been built in the past 2030 years had the assumption, it was built kind of like we build cars. We build a car all around, and we build the entire environment, so a human goes and drives the car. Right? It requires an operator. The future is not going to require operators, so it's gonna be building, like, driverless cars, and they're completely different, right? Except that we are stuck with the roads and the signals and all this stuff, and so imagine when we can completely change transportation, right? What we're thinking is that we need to be building software with the assumption that I don't wanna know how to drive the car or do all this effort, I just wanna tell it where I wanna go, And when I want to go. And maybe choose the route.”
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