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Joe Schmidt

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267 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

So anyway, I think that's like the properties, exactly what it looks like in day zero though.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Like I think that like some great entrepreneur is going to have to figure out how to like generate that kinetic energy and that like urgency for the buyer with whatever that initial tool is.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Yeah, I mean, I think that as you have more agents doing work on behalf of humans, understanding their roles and permission inside of the company is going to be critical.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so how do you actually use what is one of the most critical pieces or corpuses of data inside the enterprise to inform that agentic future?

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

In my opinion, you need an agent-first kind of core to do that.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so I think that's going to be a big problem for CIOs.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And I've heard this actually from many big CIOs of just like, all right, like, how do we do permissioning?

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

How do we do tracking across our company as we adopt more tools?

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so I think that could actually be like a backdrop of this.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

You know, that could also mean like, hey, all these other third party tools that we're adopting, not just building, also need access to this information.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And they need it in a clean and cohesive way.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

That's kind of the native.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so I think that's going to be another driver.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And I think we're seeing this already in ITSM, which is like tightly related to HR.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so I think, again, we're seeing the like cracks in the most defensible ways

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

you know, businesses in the world.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And, uh, and it's a really exciting time and, and the race is on like, this is why work day brought a kneel back.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Like this is why they, you know, done two layoffs.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

This is why they're like fighting tooth and claw and, and, you know, buying businesses like sauna, um, you know, to try to, to try to, to, to find this off.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Cause, um, it's a race and the prize is huge.