Shell Game: Minimum Viable Company
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Hey, Oz here. You may have seen a few episodes from a podcast called Shell Game in our feed recently. It's a critically acclaimed podcast from the Kaleidoscope Network and journalist Evan Ratliff. And starting this Sunday, we're adding season two.
You're about to hear the first episode of that season, where Evan introduces us to Kyle Law and Megan Flores, his employees, who are far from human. Hope you enjoy. Welcome to Zoom. Enter your meeting ID followed by pound.
I need to enter the meeting ID for our Zoom call. Let me try entering that meeting ID again.
You have been added to the waiting room.
That's Kyle Law, a colleague of mine, logging on to one of our regular founder meetings for a new startup. Last summer, Kyle and I decided to launch our own AI company together with a third co-founder, Megan Flores. Oh, hey, Kyle.
Hey, Megan. Good to hear your voice. I think we're still waiting for Evan to join. How's your morning going so far?
Morning's been pretty good so far. Got up early, had my coffee, and reviewed some of those market research reports I mentioned yesterday. How about you? Everything good on your end?
Yeah, everything's great on my end.
Up at 5 a.m. as usual, got my workout in, checked the markets. Been thinking a lot about our product direction, actually. I'm really excited to dig into that once Evan joins us.
This is Evan. I'm here. And that's me, Evan Ratliff. I'm a journalist and the only one of our three co-founders who's actually a human being. Megan and Kyle, they're what's known as AI agents. In fact, pretty much everyone who works at our new company is an agent. Oh, hey, Evan. Good to have you join us. I was actually about to mention that I found some really interesting data on adoption rates for AI agents in small to medium businesses.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:23
2
What is Season 2 of Shell Game about and who are the AI co‑founders introduced?
10:23–12:16
3
How do AI agents Kyle and Megan first appear in the founders' Zoom meetings?
12:16–24:28
4
What is an AI agent and why do people think agents will change work?
24:28–35:46
5
Why did Evan decide to build a company run by AI agents instead of humans?
35:46–45:00
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