Alexandr Wang

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

Nobody is good at something they've never done before.

And so I think for all entrepreneurs, you start out pretty shitty at everything.

And the whole game is, how do you develop yourself to continuously improve, to get better, and learn quickly?

I mean, I really think we're at this amazing moment in the world where the bottleneck is not the progress of the AI models.

The bottleneck is diffusing that through the rest of the world and helping the world adapt to this amazing technology that already exists.

I think if the models didn't improve at all from today, there would still be decades and decades of total upheaval and change in the economy and how the world operates and everything around us.

So I think it's as a result, it's like one of the most incredible is probably a like once in a civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and to have a vision and to have ambition and to impose a view of how the future world should look by building something amazing.

You know, one of the things that we were chatting about is.

you know, backstage is, you know, when I started Scale or, you know, 10 years ago, if you started a company, you had to be, you know, it was like David versus Goliath.

And you had to be clever and you had to find like an angle into the market.

And you had to sort of like, you know, figure out a way to compete, even though you had much fewer resources.

And now I actually think with the power of

and AI, broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath.

Like I think, but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI.

And, you know, the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak.

But I think that

Startups now, if you properly embrace AI agents and figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most ambitious ways, you can easily out-compete incumbents.

Yeah, I think that a year ago, Mark wrote this memo about personal super intelligence, which I think actually is very similar to your concept of personal AGI.

But we believe that everybody in the world, all the billions of people in the world, are going to have a super intelligence that is adapted and tailored to them, that enables them to accomplish their goals, knows their context, and ultimately is an expander of their own agency.

I think the thing that we think a lot about is agency expansion.

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