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George Frazier

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

You're running a lot of experience, like you mentioned, experiments, your NanoClaw experiment, though you're now...

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Running what?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Nanobot.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Yeah.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

So how much of this is, you know, George, the scientist, the techie versus like you actually do this like pragmatically useful for the CEO of a large company?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Oh, that's cool.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

I don't, I don't.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

That's an amazing take on it.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

A million questions.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

But I will say, just like this conversation, do you ever find this becomes a bit of a distraction?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Like...

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

It is so dazzling and so fun and so interesting to work on these things.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And you're like, oh, you know, I should be like doing that one-on-one, but instead I'm here in my office.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Yeah, yeah.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

I mean, one thing I do really appreciate about you as an executive is that you, as the founders, you're actually quite reflective.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And one of the mental exercises that you've been doing as long as I've known you was like pretending โ€“

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

If you were a new CEO brought in by the board to fix Fivetran, like what would you immediately unwind?

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

Which by the way, always happens when you bring in a CEO.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

And I know you kind of do this mental exercise.

The a16z Show
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

So is there anything recently that you've thought like, boy, if I was brought in to like run things, I would change this?