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If you were starting a company today, you're not going to need as many people, right?

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The video provides high-value, contrarian business advice from industry leaders, which builds authority and trust before subtly associating the brand with the future of work.

Summary

Avi Tal discusses how modern companies can operate with fewer employees by leveraging AI tools from the start. The video concludes with a brief branding screen for Zapier.

Structure

1Introduction of the lean startup concept
2Examples of modern low-headcount companies
3Advice on being intentional with AI integration
4Final branding screen

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Zapier is mentioned in the on-screen lower-third for Wade Foster and appears as a logo at the end of the video.

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Agents of Scale If you were starting a company today, you're not going to need as many people, right? Avi Tal Co-Founder & Head of Product at Verse.ai Wade Foster CEO at Zapier We're seeing that, I mean it's insane how few employees these businesses have, right? like Replit or Cursor or whatnot. So that needs to be fully embraced. And it's harder to do when you didn't start off that way and you're kind of layering stuff in, but, if you're starting that way from the start, I would advise people to be really intentional about that and every single department needs to have, just assume that you're gonna have Y'know, your AI accountant, and assume you're gonna have, y'know, all these things. zapier

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"We actually hid the fact we were using AI until ChatGPT came out.” – Avi Tal, co-founder of Verse New episode of Agents of Scale out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. #AI #AIorchestration #AgentsofScale #Zapier