Evan Ratliff

For this season of the show, I basically decided to test out or investigate the premise of the one-person, $1 billion startup.

Now, my startup wasn't a billion-dollar startup, let's say, but what that means is basically this notion of a startup where all of the employees or other figures in the company are AI agents, except one human.

The human was me, I co-founded a startup, I had two AI agent co-founders, three other employees,

We launched a company called Rumo AI.

We have a product that's called Sloth Surf.

And in the show, I'm sort of documenting what that's like and the experience of dealing with these AI agents all the time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I wanted to kind of, partly because I was documenting it, I wanted to give them each a distinct identity.

So we have, you know, the CEO, we have the CTO, we have the head of sales and marketing.

Each of them have, you know, names and identities.

And they have, as you say, they have voice, they have video, they have, they're on Slack, they can email.

And as a result, I also, you know, put them all on LinkedIn initially.

I mean, yeah, I guess so.

I think I saw sort of last year, early on in the year, just all of the discussion about AI agents and agentic this and agentic that and agentic commerce.

And it just struck me that if you combine this sort of incredible things that AI agents could do with this sort of

daily hallucinations and problems that you do encounter if you work with AI on a regular basis.

It's a very interesting dynamic for a company.

It can be extremely powerful, but also, depending on what you connect them up to, you are setting yourself up for some very chaotic situations.

Yes.