Alex Wiltschko

Clearly, the best companies in the future are not just going to hire massive armies of people to do everything.

They're going to hire people who can really effectively leverage agents.

It's so obvious that's happening in engineering, where if you could hire one engineer who could be fully agentically leveraged, you get more output than 30 traditional engineers doing traditional engineering.

So that's one internal thing.

But then the third is, I'm a strong believer that

you have to go and skate to where the puck is going, like index against like the big tidal wave coming, right?

Like Amazon did this like back in the day against like the growth of the internet, right?

Like they, you know, Bezos picked books and like, you know, e-commerce because like he thought that would be the best way to index against the growth of the internet.

And so for us, like we get that through air table and like kind of hybrid headless air table, but we're also placing a big bet on hyper agent because hyper agent is basically like taking all of the like excitement of frontier agents, like IE open claw,

and YOLO agents that can just have access to your data and tools and do stuff, really, really long-running stuff, not 10-second tasks, but 10-hour tasks, but for non-coders.

And we want to do it in a business-friendly way.

So you can go and do this, deploy it into your company, run agents across your entire company.

And so that's kind of a bet on if we believed Airtable 10 years ago was the most meta problem, the largest problem we could work on, which is like,

software arguably was the biggest and fastest growing industry at the time, right?

And how do we go after that entire category and index against that?

How do we now go against agents and say, we want to build the best agents platform that any business and any person can come in and use and just start building agents with and deploying them into their company, right?

And so if we do that really well, then we get to doubly win both as the data layer, but also kind of have a bet on the agent wave.

Definitely not.

I think both.

I think the fundamentals of good technical architecture are going to be the most important thing.