AI Agents & the Future of Work with LangChain’s Harrison Chase | AI Basics with Google Cloud

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: Jason sits down with Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain, to explore how AI-powered agents are transforming the way startups operate. They discuss the shift from traditional entry-level roles to AI-driven automation, the importance of human-in-the-loop systems, and the future of AI-powered assistants in business. Harrison shares insights on how companies like Replit, Klarna, and GitLab are leveraging AI agents to streamline operations, plus a look ahead at what's next for AI-driven workflows. Brought to you in partnership with Google Cloud.

Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction to Startup Basics series & Importance of AI in startups(2:04) Partnership with Google Cloud & Introducing Harrison Chase from Langchain(4:38) Evolution of entry-level jobs & Examples of AI agents in startups(8:00) Challenges & Future of AI agents in startups(14:24) AI agents in collaborative spaces & Non-developers creating AI agents(18:40) Closing remarks and where to learn more

Uncover more valuable insights from AI leaders in Google Cloud's 'Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups' report. Discover what 23 AI industry leaders think about the future of AI—and how it impacts your business. Read their perspectives here: https://goo.gle/futureofai

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back to Startup Basics. This week in Startups.com slash basics
0:10.0	is the URL where you can find these videos and the series that we've been doing for over five
0:15.8	years now. What do we do in Startup Basics? We look at things that founders, you know, need to get right and that they might make a mistake
0:24.1	on sometimes or they might not know about an opportunity.
0:27.2	That's why we call off the basics.
0:29.4	Legal with our friends over at Wilson Sincini.
0:32.5	We do accounting with our friends over at Cruz.
0:35.5	And we're really excited because one of the basics you have to get right today is AI.
0:40.7	Every startup I see, whether they're an AI startup or not, they're using AI to run their
0:46.8	companies.
0:47.6	And one of the topics we talk about here on this week in startups all the time is static team
0:51.4	size.
0:52.2	A lot of folks are sticking with five or 10 or 100 people at their
0:56.2	startup. And instead of hiring people, just running up the head count, they're deciding, hey, maybe I
1:03.3	could automate stuff. Maybe I can use AI to figure things out. And so it is now one of the best
1:09.0	practices that you got to get right. Just like you got to
1:11.4	get your legal, just like you got to get your accounting right. You got to get your AI right
1:16.4	inside your startups. Don't I know it? When people email us, their decks and they apply for funding
1:23.3	from us. You know what we do? Zip, zip, zip. People didn't know this. I don't want to say,
1:27.6	because I'm gatekeeping here. One of the things we do is we send all that information to Gemini.
1:33.2	I don't know if you know Google's really amazing large language model and service. And then Gemini
1:38.3	spits out this great report based on our criteria and this analysis of the startup so we can just read that short
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