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Anjney Midha

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339 total appearances

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Because when AI agents, I love rare pens.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

This is a Montblanc.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

As I get older, I'm a pen guy and I love old vintage glasses.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

I don't know if you can see my Jacques Marimage box in the back.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

But when I'm out of time,

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

What do I do?

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

I have Claude go look for rare pens and glasses for me online.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

The biggest problem with used rare asset purchases is fraud.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

So Claude will be like, ìAndrzej, I found this amazing pen, this Montblanc pen.î And I say, ìOkay, can you triple check that it's real, it's not fake?î And that's where things go up real because there's no way for him to verify that without messaging the agent and so on.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

But if you have 1600 stores where people who have Montblanc pens can go and physically verify those assets at GameStop.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Now, Claude just says, yeah, I checked.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

It has the physical verification stamp from- Somebody brought it in.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

Exactly.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

So you need physical verification built into the system for agentic commerce.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

And look, the reason I know this is real is because a few years ago, I think you guys, we talked about this last time, but I sold my last startup to a company called Discord in 2020, peak pandemic.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

So I come on as the head of platform.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

My job is supposed to be, you know, go build SDKs, APIs and so on for gaming.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

We help this company called Midjourney get going, AI, you know, generate.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

But 12 months later, suddenly I find myself running without realizing an e-commerce business because it was the summer of NFTs.

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FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck

And the board A's are blowing up.