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20VC: The $100 Billion AI Assistant Race: Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | We Spend $75K Per Engineer on AI Tools | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble & AI Assistants Will Replace Every App on Your Phone with JD, Founder of Town
Jean-Denis "JD" Grèze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, the AI work assistant reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $1BN valuation. Before founding Town, JD spent seven years as CTO of Plaid. Before Plaid, he was Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He is also a prolific angel investor backing companies including Modal, BaseTen, Merge and NexHealth.
AGENDA:
00:00 Why AI Assistants Are Silicon Valley's Hottest Market
07:00 How Does Town Compete With Grokbot, Instinct and Big Tech?
11:00 Will We Have One AI Agent or Different Agents for Every Part of Our Lives?
17:00 How Many Mistakes Can…
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