How to win with AI Agents in 2026

About this episode

Greg Isenberg interviews Howie Liu about the future of AI agents and the launch of HyperAgent.

Limited BONUS: First 1,000 builders get $1,000. Claim yours while supplies lasts.: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/hyperagent I sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to talk about the agent economy and the launch of HyperAgent. We walk through Sequoia's charts on AI agent deployment, the economics of token-based work versus human labor, and why frontier agents have crossed a threshold that changes how companies get built. Howie then does a live show-and-tell of HyperAgent, including a custom "Greg Isenberg contrarian AI" skill he spins up in real time. This one is for anyone building a solopreneur business, operating a fleet of agents, or trying to figure out where to place their bet in the agent ecosystem Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 02:22 – Sequoia's AI agent deployment chart reaction 04:41 – Copilot vs Autopilot territory and the $1T+ opportunity 08:13 – Agent economics vs human labor costs 11:12 – Fastest enterprise adoption curve in history 14:48 – The agent command center and fleet of 20 agents 18:03 – What is HyperAgent? 19:43 – Live demo: hyperlocal real estate market reports 22:38 – HyperAgent as the founder, not just the developer 23:21 – Street View…

People in this episode

Host: Greg Isenberg

Guest: Howie Liu

Topics covered

• AI agents
• agent economy
• HyperAgent
• solopreneur business
• token-based work
• enterprise adoption
• agent ecosystem

Keywords

• AI agents
• HyperAgent
• Airtable
• agent economy
• token-based work
• enterprise adoption
• solopreneur
• live demo

Sponsors

Startup Ideas

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Airtable, Sequoia

Products: HyperAgent, Copilot, Autopilot, Perplexity Computer, Manus, OpenClaw, Codex

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