Founders and Builders
Founders and Builders
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Founders & Builders is your go-to channel for in-depth conversations with the world's best startup founders and operators.
Whether you’re an aspiring founder, a seasoned entrepreneur, or simply curious about the journey of building your own business, you'll find real-world experiences, and candid advice from successful entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches. Join us as we explore the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, uncover the secrets to startup success, and dive into the future of technology and business. Subscribe to be inspired, informed, and equipped to build something great!
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The podcast focuses on themes such as entrepreneurship, startup strategies, technology innovation, and AI in business. Episodes delve into topics like building AI-native products, the challenges of clinical trials in biotech, and successful SaaS development, with concrete examples including Akash Bajwa's insights on AI startups and David Brear's exploration of redefining banking.
Founders & Builders is your go-to channel for in-depth conversations with the world’s best startup founders and operators.
Whether you’re an aspiring founder, a seasoned entrepreneur, or simply curious about the journey of building your own business, you’ll find real-world experiences, and candid advice from successful entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches. Join us as we explore the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, uncover the secrets to startup success, and dive into the future of technology and business. Subscribe to be inspired, informed, and equipped to build something great!
Joe and David are the founders of Asteroid, a YC-backed startup building AI browser agents that can automate real work inside the tools we use every day.
In this episode, we go deep on why browser agents are such a big deal and what it really takes to get AI agents into the real world and how YOU can take advantage of them.
We also unpack their journey through Entrepreneur First and Y Combinator, the hard pivots they made along the way, why most AI startups risk becoming consultancies, and what happens to jobs when agents start doing more and more of the work.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:47 The power of using AI agents
05:21 From fraud agents → the Asteroid idea
06:16 How to make your agents reliable
09:51 What Asteroid actually does (build, run, monitor agents)
13:25 Finding product-market fit
19:26 AI safety and supervision at Deepmind
28:57 Staying at the frontier of AI agents
34:23 Founder lessons and the future of work
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