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E45: Breaking Down the Agent Economy with Robert Chandler (Wordware)

January 08, 2025 • Laura Hamilton and Wil Hagen • Episode 45

This week, we sat down with Robert Chandler, CTO and Co-Founder at Wordware. Wordware is a collaborative platform to build, iterate, and deploy AI agents.

We explore his initial interest in self-driving cars, finding PMF (knowing when to pivot), turning weak AGI into a narrow AI expert, and why prompting is the new programming with first principles in mind.

Episode Chapters:

Entrepreneurship curiosity- 1:54
Building HeyDaily - 4:38
Pivot to agents - 9:42
End to end agent orchestration - 13:55
Long tail of use cases - 18:55
Future of Wordware - 20:56
Feature prioritization - 24:24
Building with high switching costs - 27:48
Ending questions - 33:55

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