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Quotes and lessons on ai agents from 13 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.

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Cod helps you write best quality code in production

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

I actually have an AI agent setup so I have five developers five AI developers coding for me

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

In a market that's defined by essentially what you know, that's more valuable than anything.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

AIs are numerous but identical. Individual human taste is something built by lived experience that an AI can't replicate.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

I learned to code when I was very small, like eight years old or something. I got a computer and a C++ book from my dad.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

The premise of agent work is like what if instead of hiring a guy in India for example with chatbt through upwork what if you get an agent to try to solve the problem whatever it runs into problems it hires human help basically.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

Leaping makes self-improving voice agents for businesses.

— Kevin Wu, Leaping AI · episode

We currently do around 100,000 calls per day on our platform whilst automating, you know, up to 70% of repetitive uh support calls on the phone.

— Kevin Wu, Leaping AI · episode

So last year me and Craig we sat together and thought how can we combine those two fields like AI and browser automation so that you can just tell your computer what it should do and actually does it for you and so we built small prototype push it to hacker news youth and it took off.

— Magnus Müller, browser-use · episode

It's actually a great filter hitchhiking because if you hitchhike, like only people who are up for the adventure or who are very friendly take you.

— Magnus Müller, browser-use · episode

Most of these people are really just ultra high agency you kind of throw them in any situation they just figure out what needs to be done.

— Supreet Deshpande, Cintio Labs · episode

If you want to focus on like hey I want to go work in banking or kind of disrupt how the insurance industry works you need to first understand what sort of the ground reality is.

— Supreet Deshpande, Cintio Labs · episode

I'm building the most complex go-to-market workflows just through natural language.

— Vihaar Nandigala, OrangeSlice.ai · episode

The first big lessons and kind of things I wish I knew earlier was just how important the sales function is to startups.

— Vihaar Nandigala, OrangeSlice.ai · episode

So essentially what we are is the easiest way for you to build a voice agent that answers your phones.

— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode

When I was when I was 13 years old, my brothers and I spent 72 days kayaking around Lake Superior, which is 1,200 miles.

— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode

We just raised our series A and we've been really growing out the team, scaling it a lot. Seeing a ton of attraction attraction traction in the market and a lot of adoption.

— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode

Where a lot of our competitors are building you know, chatbots that talk, we've been able to build that two years ago and now we build AI agents that are optimized better than any other agent.

— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode

hypers spell is a building infrastructure for the AI app layer we allow you to connect any data source and make that data useful for AI right

— Conor Brennan-Burke, Hyperspell · episode

we know a lot of these other AI companies are also very early and so you know our our thing that we offer to them is hey you pay one flat fee we will handle your entire data pipeline

— Conor Brennan-Burke, Hyperspell · episode

Enterprises typically 1 000 plus people uh will use us so as a Gateway between their employees and all the different AI applications Foundation models and like internal tools that they want to use

— Ravin Thambapillai, Credal AI · episode

we built all of these security features and yeah a lot of the companies and customers we were speaking to were like yeah this product is cool but those security features are really cool

— Ravin Thambapillai, Credal AI · episode

I'd say the biggest change though is uh it took me about a year to deal with having a boss and that is a big change for a founder or an entrepreneur

— Jason Harris, Mekanism · episode

fees have gone down because whether you're you know using these tools to a large extent or a small extent client the expectation and the perception from clients is that you've you're doing more with less people.

— Jason Harris, Mekanism · episode

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