Workshop: Your Agentic Co-Founder

Generative AI has fundamentally upended the economics of startups. Things that were hard—analyzing information, writing code, deploying infrastructure, doing research—are now so cheap we bill them by the month. And things that we took for granted—taste, skepticism, legitimacy, reputation—are precious and scarce. The asymmetric advantage an AI confers is as real as the risks it carries when you get it wrong.

Startups that embrace generative AI live in a new world. Those who don't are, with few exceptions, already doomed. But what does it mean to embrace AI in a startup? At the risk of dramatically oversimplifying things, it means welcoming an Agentic co-founder to the team. It's a tireless savant with jagged intelligence. It's an untrustworthy intern with no sense of proportion. It's the embodiment of your intellectual property, and a leaky mole that can't be trusted.

Join Startupfest chair and bestselling author Alistair Croll for a two-hour dive into the world of AI-augmented startups. It's a two-hour, interactive discussion on what's working, what's changing, and where entrepreneurship is headed with a second intelligence joining the team.