Sentry CEO: Humans Will Still Do Most of the Buying This Black Friday, Not Agents
zeeg · x · 2026-11-11
Responding to a claim that this might be the first Black Friday where agents buy more than humans, Sentry co-founder and CEO David Cramer cautions against Silicon Valley bubble thinking: the Valley is wildly different from the rest of the world, and humans will still be buying the majority of products this year and probably next year.
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