Pedro Franceschi

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · "The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer" · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And then someone somehow went there and figured out how to actually make the booking happen.

like DoorDash in the early days, similar, right?

Like it was just like literally, so the surface area was so small with the customer and so much of the band, the sort of the intelligence and the bandwidth of the founders were spent nailing this one single interaction pattern.

And I think the risk with AI is that the agency behind choice

goes away.

So, so you have this, you have this, this, this, this lack of discipline on what matters to solve.

And I think people tend to believe that I can just experiment a lot of things and that's absolutely true, but, but that doesn't preclude you from actually choosing what matters.

I always tell people, like, I think if you don't, if you can't minimize your surface area and, and solve the problem with a very clear set of boundaries, you haven't found the right problem to solve.

And I think that's, and you can, of course,

find how to compress the problem into a smaller surface area using AI.

And that's really valuable.

But I don't think you should use it as an excuse to not do that, which I think as well, I can just build so many other things.

But, you know, I always tell this to people, intelligence is compression.

So when someone comes to pitch me an idea in the company, I'm like, it has to fit in a napkin.

Like, great ideas for your napkin.

What's your napkin?

And then someone comes with this, and I'm like, I don't know where you buy napkins, but the ones in my house are not this size.

100%.

I think one of the hardest things of building a company is talking to customers and not just having the conversation, but how to extract the sort of unspoken signal from these conversations.

And I think to me, can AI solve this lens?

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