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What Happens When AI Agents Can Spend Your Money? | Jean-Denis Greze and Alex Rampell

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What Happens When AI Agents Can Spend Your Money? | Jean-Denis Greze and Alex Rampell

Why hasn't AI transformed everyday work as quickly as coding? Town CEO Jean-Denis Greze argues the bottleneck isn't intelligence, but making AI useful to people who don't have the time or technical skills to build their own automations. Jean-Denis joins a16z General Partner Alex Rampell to share why he pivoted Town from tax software to a personal AI…

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  1. Alex Rampell thought Jean-Denis Greze was still building an SMB tax tool. Full answer

  2. Jean-Denis Greze agrees with the iPhone framing. Full answer

  3. Jean-Denis Greze says a restaurant wholesaler price check is worth running even in the months it finds nothing. Full answer

  4. Jean-Denis Greze says Town has a mode for building an internal CRM where agents decide what company information other employees can see. Full answer

  5. Jean-Denis Greze says artificial intelligence is not diffusing because there are not enough tinkers, and not enough people with time to tinker a solution for… Full answer

  6. Jean-Denis Greze says people who tried artificial intelligence two years ago locked in a failure. Full answer

  7. Jean-Denis Greze wants a neutral agent that is yours and that you do not doubt. The only source of money for the agent is your wallet as the user. Full answer

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