Zapier Co-Founder on Using AI Agents to 10X Your Productivity | Mike Knoop (Zapier)
Description
My guest today is Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier.
Mike co-founded Zapier and started the ARC Prize to accelerate progress towards open AGI. We had a great chat about how Zapier works, how PMs and marketers can use AI to automate even more work, and why LLMs won’t reach AGI by themselves.
Timestamps:
(00:00 ) There are two types of AI automation
(01:57 ) How Zapier automation works
(05:14 ) I quit being Zapier's CPO to do AI research
(07:54 ) I gave employees a week off to just use AI(11:57 ) How PMs can use AI agents to save time
(14:03 ) We saved $100K by using AI agents in marketing
(21:28 ) Robotic process automation might be better than APIs
(26:30 ) Most definitions of AGI are wrong
(30:45 ) Why LLMs won't get us to AGI and what might work instead
Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/zapier-co-founder-ai-agents-10x-productivity-mike-knoop
Where to find Mike:X: https://x.com/mikeknoopWebsite: https://mikeknoop.com/
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