Airtable Founder Howie Liu: AI Agents Will Be a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market
soleio · x · 2026-09-16
Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu (now Hyperagent) says the agent opportunity is "multi-deca-trillion-dollar," potentially bigger than today's tens-of-trillions knowledge work economy, since cheap, always-on intelligence can scale knowledge work. Counterintuitively, he argues cheaper intelligence means more dollar spend, not less, as consumption rises.
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