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Partner Path
Partner Path is a podcast exploring the venture capital and startup ecosystem through a younger perspective. We feature candid conversations with early-stage founders, operators, and emerging investors—offering insight into everything from sourcing and investment strategies to product execution and go-to-market lessons. Whether you’re an aspiring investor, founder, or just curious about VC, tune in for an inside look at the industry.
Partner Path
E39: Managing AI Agents with Alex Reibman (Agency)
This week, we sat down with Alex Reibman, CEO and Co-Founder of Agency. Agency is an agentic platform to help build reliable agents at scale. We discuss learning through competing (in hackathons), agents as self-driving programs, multi-agent tenancy, and why LLMs are not best suited for agents. We also explored which failure scenarios we can accept when building agentic systems and why community is crucial for scale.
Episode Chapters:
- Alex's background - 1:50
- Enterprise to startup - 6:42
- Hackathons to Agency - 9:50
- What is an AI agent? - 11:40
- How to use an agent - 15:43
- LLMs impact on agents - 19:53
- Agency as a product - 21:30
- Trusting the system - 26:27
- Who will benefit first? - 34:04
- Do not bet against the models - 37:31
- Quick fire round - 39:40
As always, feel free to contact us at partnerpathpodcast@gmail.com. We would love to hear ideas for content, guests, and overall feedback.
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