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The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything. Dec 10, 2025 · 17 mentions

• ▶ 0:36 Jonathan Swanson Now with a company like Athena, for 3000 bucks a month, you can have your own assistant.
• ▶ 2:29 Erik Torenberg And this is, like, another example of it, which is, you know, the democratization, where the White House have amazing assistants, but thanks to Athena, you know, and, and, you know, technology, at some point, everyone will have a certain,… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 4:16 Jonathan Swanson Um, if you have budget, then you hire someone direct with a service like Athena.
• ▶ 4:30 Erik Torenberg So I've had Anithiye for many years now, and, and she's absolutely amazing.
• ▶ 9:37 Jonathan Swanson And so learning to delegate by voice, if you look at all the super delegators at Athena, they are all just delegating by voice all day long. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 9:53 Jonathan Swanson This is, uh, this is part of our vision at Athena longer term, is you shouldn't have to actually vocalize it. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:15 Jonathan Swanson So, you know, I think the, the thing Athena focuses on is executive assistant, someone who can do all of this admin.
• ▶ 23:37 Jonathan Swanson I mean, this is a place, uh, you know, Athena Systems can do this proactively for you, but this is a place that AI is obviously going to automate, and it will be very powerful, or it's at the end of each week.
• ▶ 27:32 Jonathan Swanson And so it became clear we needed to invest more in actually teaching the clients how to delegate, uh, because that is as much of a constraint as the assistants, and we've got a few thousand assistants and clients, and if you look at the…
• ▶ 43:55 Jonathan Swanson I mean, this is one of our visions at Athena is that you can have digital assistants that listen to you and work with you and are connected to your Zoom and your inbox and your calendar and can be mining all of that digital exhaust for…
• ▶ 53:36 Erik Torenberg Let's go to Athena, and let's go where we started, which is sort of the intersection between, uh, humans and AI.
• ▶ 55:54 Jonathan Swanson You know, Athena, we have 50,000 assistants apply per month, and we put them through a huge battery of tests, and we hire like one in 300. 3 times in the scene