Monday.com Co-Founder: "We Changed the Vision of the Company Completely" | Roy Mann on the Agent Economy

About this episode

Liam Lawson interviews Roy Mann about the transformation of Monday.com and the implications of AI in the workplace.

Monday.com has 225,000 customers and over 60,000 seats at some of its largest accounts. So when its co-founder says the company completely changed its vision, that is worth paying attention to. In this episode, Liam Lawson sits down with Roy Mann, co-founder of Monday.com, to talk about the three waves of AI, why managing work is no longer the goal, and how Monday is now betting everything on agents actually doing the work instead. Roy also breaks down Agent Talent, the marketplace where companies can hire AI agents like employees, why Monday opened its platform to agents as first class citizens, and what adaptability really means when technology is moving this fast. Stories Covered This Week: The three waves of AI and why wave three changes everything Why Monday changed its core vision from managing work to doing the work Agent Talent: hiring AI agents like employees with real job postings and qualifications Selling to agents, not just humans, and what that marketing looks like The SaaS apocalypse and whether the per seat model is actually dead OpenClaw, open source AI, and why Roy thinks this is a democratic technology The future of work, abundance vs scarcity, and why…

People in this episode

Host: Liam Lawson

Guest: Roy Mann

Topics covered

• AI waves
• Agent economy
• Work management
• AI agents
• Future of work
• SaaS model

Keywords

• Monday.com
• Roy Mann
• AI agents
• Agent Talent
• future of work
• SaaS apocalypse
• work management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Monday.com, Agent Talent, OpenClaw

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