a16z Podcast: What Happens When AI Agents Can Spend Your Money?
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-10-19
An a16z podcast conversation between Town CEO Jean-Denis Greze and GP Alex Rampell on AI agents entering everyday work and commerce:
- The bottleneck isn't intelligence: AI hasn't transformed everyday work as fast as coding because it isn't yet useful to people without the time or skills to build their own automations.
- Town's pivot: from tax software to a personal AI assistant built around email, calendars and business workflows, including discovering tasks users wouldn't think to delegate.
- Consumer-grade may win in enterprise AI, and model neutrality and data ownership matter as AI labs increasingly compete with application companies.
- Agents acting on our behalf: from managing work to shopping, next-generation software may need to adapt to each user rather than the reverse.
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