agent

also referred to as: agents

16 statements across 7 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2025 by Yamini Rangan · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jun 4, 2025 positive
Opinion
Rangan: Enterprise software requires both co-pilots and autonomous agents
“In the industry, there's just a lot of confusion about what is a co-pilot? What is an agent? Do you need both? And there's a fight over. You don't need co-pilots. You only need agents. And the simplified version is you actually need both. Co-pilots help you do…”
Yamini Rangan Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 23:00 AI and The Future of Sales, Marketing & CS with HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan
Feb 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Lemkin: Deeply trained AI agents cannot succeed through self-service setup
“A lot of the agents we use are pushing down market to be more self-service. So far that doesn't work. So far, I will say for the most part, agents that require deep training cannot be self-trained.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 4, 2026 ▶ 14:05 From 1 Agent to 20+: The Reality of Managing Multiple AI Agents Across Your GTM
Feb 15, 2026 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Software platforms must own native agents or lose all value
“You have to own the agents on your platform, or the agents will take away all the value.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 15, 2026 ▶ 21:29 Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
May 6, 2026 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Managing AI Agents Requires Human Judgment and Taste Over Data
“This may become our jobs at the end of the day is, is the agent will have the right ideas. It will have the data. It will make the best proposition, but ultimately it will, there'll be some, even though it'll be smarter than us and some of us, there will be so…”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 1:04:24 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Interacting with an agent builder develops its distinct personality
“If you start to talk to the agent in this builder in the back end, it will develop its own, what I call personality or you can call it brain, but it will develop its own personality to do it.”
Amelia LeRutte Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 0:30 How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Insight
AI agents excel at ad creative due to endless ideation capacity
“Agents are really good at ads because they have, like, endless ideas, whereas I feel like as humans, if you want your ROAS to be really high, you need to change it, like, every other day or so and change it, like, seven times over.”
Amelia LeRutte Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 0:00 How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Insight
AI marketing agents generate ideas exclusively grounded in data
“The nice thing about building something like an agent is any ideas it's going to give you is only based in data. Like, that's all it has. It's got all your data. It's got your numbers. It's got a goal, hopefully. You give it a goal, maybe write down your goal …”
Amelia LeRutte Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 7:32 How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Twilio's growth rebounded to over 20% due to AI agent APIs
“And to me, Twilio is another example. It almost died. It's growing four percent. Now it's growing over 20% because the API worked with agents.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 37:23 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 negative
Insight
Bialecki: Fuzzy human workflow interfaces fail when deploying AI agents
“I know this feels, look, a lot of humans, we're used to these kind of fuzzy interfaces, and then we'll meet, we'll have meetings to kind of figure out what he's first going to do. I think that it's not a great way to work, honestly, and it doesn't work with ag…”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 26:40 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Bialecki: Klaviyo mandated all employees reach Level 3 agent proficiency by June
“We saw everybody's like, look, by the end of June, you need to be an L three, which is if you're not constantly running either end sessions or a team of agents, right? You're just not, you're not going to be skilled to survive in this next era.”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 24:49 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Insight
Bialecki: AI agents bypass human learning curves to become day-one power users
“Normally in software, you have this power law of like how good your users are, your products. Do you got a couple of really advanced users? Maybe you put them on a customer panel together. You bring them in and it really wants pushing the limits, but then you …”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 20:12 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Insight
Bialecki: Software developers should collect product feedback directly from AI agents
“Whether you're building agents, they're going to be the super users, or if you're building the software that you expect, either humans, we're going to plug into MCP or other people are going to expose to algorithms and agents, expect them to be super users. Al…”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 23:42 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 neutral
Insight
Bialecki: Building AI agents is easy, but finding where they fail is hard
“Getting the agent going is pretty easy, but figuring out where it gets stuck is hard.”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 9:31 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026
Disclosure
Bialecki: Klaviyo uses internal coaching agents to vet AI marketing proposals
“Every time it has a proposal, like, Hey, we think you should market to these customers in this way. You should send them this email. It will go check its work kind of against its coach that will say, Hey, how good will this, how good do you think this will act…”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 17:27 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Aug 14, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bialecki: Workers orchestrating AI agent teams will be enormously successful
“There's so few people that are gonna get there in the next year or two. If those skills are gonna be so valuable, if you truly are not talking about AI, right? Yes. But if you're the kind of person that's, I can put an agent to work and actually have to produc…”
Andrew Bialecki Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 25:28 Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Rubrik CPO: Building agents for cyber recovery was harder than expected
“It's been actually a much more challenging problem to build agents within our product than I think I thought it was going to be a year ago to really deliver those outcomes.”
Chief Product Officer, Rubrik Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 6:45 Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
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