91. AI in The Future of Work
From The Operations Room: A Podcast for COO’s by Bethany Ayers & Brandon Mensinga
February 12, 2026 · 59 min · Season 2 · Episode 91
About this episode
This episode discusses the implications of AI in the future of work with guest Agata Nowicka.
In this episode we discuss: AI in the future of work. We are joined by Agata Nowicka, Managing Partner of the AI Visionaries Accelerator. Love The Operations Room? Please support us by rating and reviewing it here . We chat about the following with Agata Nowicka: Are high-growth founders underestimating the role of distribution from day one? At Series B and beyond, is your monetisation model actually aligned with value delivery? Could your onboarding and sales process be quietly eroding the value you promise? Will AI fluency soon become a non-negotiable capability in your workforce? Are you building an AI-first company — or just layering AI onto old plumbing? References https://www.linkedin.com/in/agata-nowicka/ https://femalefoundry.substack.com/ https://www.aivisionaries.co/ https://www.femaleinnovationindex.com/ Biography Agata Nowicka is the Managing Partner at AI Visionaries—an AI accelerator launched with Google to scale Europe’s most innovative AI and deeptech startups. With 12 years of experience as an angel, VC investor and founder of two tech businesses in the U.S., Hong Kong, and the UK (one exit), she is also the author of the Female Innovation Index—the largest…
People in this episode
Hosts: Bethany Ayers, Brandon Mensinga
Guest: Agata Nowicka
Topics covered
- AI in the future of work
- high-growth founders
- monetisation models
- onboarding processes
- AI fluency
- AI-first companies
Keywords
- AI
- future of work
- high-growth founders
- monetisation
- onboarding
- AI fluency
- AI-first companies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AI Visionaries Accelerator, Google, Female Innovation Index, Techstars, University of Cambridge Founders Accelerator, Village Capital
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