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Billions of people will learn to delegate to machine assistants
“It's gonna become ubiquitous. People are, there's gonna be billions of people learning to delegate to a machine assistant”
A Google search penalty once wiped out Thumbtack's web traffic and revenue
“At Thumbtack, there was a moment, you may remember this, a decade ago, where I woke up, and I had a message from someone on our team in the Philippines, and it said, Thumbtack does not exist on the internet. I was like, what? And I went to Google, you type in …”
AI assistants will evolve into full autonomy like self-driving cars
“Yeah, I mean, it's a moving target, obviously, is gonna get increasingly more capable, and our view is it's like self-driving cars, where it's not self-driving overnight, it's you drive the Tesla at first, And then there's assisted steering and braking, and th…”
Athena engineer receives majority of task delegations via screen-monitoring AI
“The person who built this internally has been using it, the majority of his delegations are now machine-generated.”
AI will eventually automate weekly founder calendar and goal audits
“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. It just tells you, here's what you prioritized. Are those actually your goals?”
Thumbtack launched with three non-technical co-founders and one technical co-founder
“I'd say, you know, one of the biggest, I don't know if I called a mistake at Thumbtack because I love my founders, but it's something I wouldn't recommend others do, is we had four co-founders, and one was technical, he left after like two years, and then the …”
Athena scaled to 1,000 people without raising outside capital
“Athena started fully bootstrapped, human-only, scaled to a thousand people, no outside capital”
AI will absorb admin work as assistants shift to high-level management
“The human assistant will focus more on project management and high-level work and really be that, like, caretaker, the empathy, that partner. And the machine will increasingly do the more rote, mechanical, administrative stuff.”