One person ran a $400M GLP-1 company with agents doing the vendor talks
ramagetime · x · 2026-11-06
Citing Amjad Masad: one guy runs a GLP-1 company at $400M — he doesn't talk to vendors, his agent does.
The catch: the blowups came from automating with weak controls. The working principle: automate the work, keep a human on approvals.
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