Jack Altman Joins Benchmark

DoorDash CTO reveals how AI agents will transform commerce industry

Jack Altman discusses the risks of AI agents making personal decisions like food ordering, while highlighting DoorDash CTO Andy Fang's bullish view that agents will be transformative to commerce. The conversation explores the tension between automation convenience and maintaining customer control over personal preferences.

Jack Altman predicts 30-40 million US jobs could disappear in four years

Jack Altman discusses potential AI-driven job displacement across customer support, legal, and bookkeeping roles, estimating 30-40 million jobs at risk within four years when including autonomous driving. He tempers this prediction by pointing to Waymo as an example of how revolutionary tech often takes longer to scale than initially projected.

Jack Altman has data from 10,000 restaurants proving people want AI food agents

Jack Altman argues that AI agents for food recommendations aren't just a nice-to-have but a proven market need, citing data from over 10,000 restaurants. He envisions agents that combine your personal order history, price preferences, and real-time social media trends to deliver superior restaurant recommendations. The conversation touches on whether this represents a fundamentally disruptive opportunity worth building a new company around.

SaaS apps becoming dumb databases while AI captures the incremental value

A discussion on how AI disruption threatens to commoditize existing SaaS applications by making them into basic databases, while new AI-powered solutions capture the incremental value from marginal improvements. The speaker shares a real example of reducing their team from 12 to 2 people while maintaining 8-figure revenue through AI automation, illustrating the concept of 'Ghost GDP' - economic value created without traditional human labor.

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