AI Copilots

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20VC Opinion
Lemkin: Paid standalone AI co-pilots were B2B software's biggest 2025 failure
“The biggest failing of this year, we talked about, I want to say in twenties, going to Rory's point, it was the co-pilot. The co-pilot was the worst of all worlds. We're not going to put it in our base product. We're not going to make the core product better, …”
Jason Lemkin Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 53:48 Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Fedus: Periodic Labs will build AI co-pilots for space and defense
“Basically co-pilots for engineers, researchers in advanced industries. So maybe perhaps just being in Silicon Valley, we, you know, we really think about like computer oriented work. Everything is digital. Everything is bits, but there's so many industries. Li…”
Liam Fedus Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 27:32 Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
MAD Insight
Kahn: AI co-pilots can serve as junior assistants or senior mentors
“They can both be a kind of junior colleague, but also you can prompt them to act as a kind of senior mentor. And instead of having them do the first draft, which you then oversee, you could do the first draft yourself and then ask the co-pilot to sort of criti…”
Jeremy Kahn Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 10:56 An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luan: AI will make workers generalists supervising specialized AI co-pilots
“So I think what it's gonna do is it's gonna make humans at work much more like generalists, and it's gonna have, like, causes to create larger and larger, oh, sorry, like or giving people sort of, like, larger and larger scope over various different, like, are…”
David Luan Jun 24, 2024 ▶ 42:26 David Luan: Why Nvidia Will Enter the Model Space & Models Will Enter the Chip Space | E1169 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Autonomous AI agents will likely boost productivity 4-5x more than copilots
“So theoretically, if it's anywhere close can a copilot or sorry, an agent is probably four to five times more productivity boosting job producing than an agent, than a copilot.”
Tomasz Tunguz May 16, 2024 ▶ 27:58 AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siu: AI co-pilots make software developers 4x to 8x more effective
“With AI co-pilots and everything, like developers are becoming four to eight, eight X more effective.”
Eric Siu Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 14:35 I can't believe he gave away these GENIUS 3 AI startup ideas (watch this)
SAASTR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kiela: By 2030, Workers Will Manage Fleets of AI Co-Pilots
“What I think is going to happen is that there's a couple of CEOs on the stage here, and I'm sure there's a couple of CEOs in the audience, so we will all be our own CEO of our little company of AI co-pilots that are going to be doing a lot of very boring, mund…”
Douwe Kiela Jan 17, 2024 ▶ 26:21 How Enterprise Companies are Buying AI (or Not) with ContextualAI, Anthropic, and Glean
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Baszucki predicts natural English will be the universal interface between AI agents.
“We'll talk to other co-pilots using like natural English, I think will be the universal interface of co-pilots.”
David Baszucki Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 17:23 Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
SAASTR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: There will be an AI co-pilot for every professional job category
“I think there's going to be a co-pilot for every professional job category.”
David Sacks Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 3:17 What the Future of SaaS Holds with David Sacks, Founder & General Partner, Craft Ventures

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