70% of consumers use AI to shop already. Agents don't need our credit cards for us to never visit storefronts again says Stord Co-Founder and CEO Sean Henry:
"I would challenge a lot of people with the question of, in five years, do you think you'll visit a storefront while you ey tens of thousands of consumers per year in our consumer surveys, and it's like 60 to 70% of consumers say they're using AI to shop already."
"All of us kind of laugh and go like, 'Yeah, I'm not really going to give you my credit card.' But what's the best supplement for this? What's the best article for this? And you're now getting linked out directly to, 'Hey, it's already in the cart. Just go check out and you just do the rest.'"
"I would challenge a lot of people with the question of, in five years, do you think you'll visit a storefront while you ey tens of thousands of consumers per year in our consumer surveys, and it's like 60 to 70% of consumers say they're using AI to shop already."
"All of us kind of laugh and go like, 'Yeah, I'm not really going to give you my credit card.' But what's the best supplement for this? What's the best article for this? And you're now getting linked out directly to, 'Hey, it's already in the cart. Just go check out and you just do the rest.'"
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Melius Co-Founder and CEO Joowon Kim proclaims that there's no such thing as AI slop:
"I don't think there's such a thing called slop. And this is kind of a hot take... but I don't think slop exists outside of UX."
"One of my co-workers loves making videos of Tung Tung Tung ets millions of views, and to someone else, or maybe us three, it might look like slop. But people actually find that entertaining."
"As long as it's entertaining, as long as someone wants to make it and share it with other people, I think that's still to a degree creative, and there’s no use calling it slop.”
"I don't think there's such a thing called slop. And this is kind of a hot take... but I don't think slop exists outside of UX."
"One of my co-workers loves making videos of Tung Tung Tung ets millions of views, and to someone else, or maybe us three, it might look like slop. But people actually find that entertaining."
"As long as it's entertaining, as long as someone wants to make it and share it with other people, I think that's still to a degree creative, and there’s no use calling it slop.”
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Techno-optimism is the only pathway to abundance, says Stendr Founder and CEO Aleksander Leonard Larsen, who spoke about being baffled by negative attitudes towards technological progress:
"As I said, I'm a techno-optimist. I think the only way to get out of poverty and to tech our way out of it."
"Energy is, at the end of the day, the missing factor. So how do we end up producing more energy? We need more technology to make the energy that we have more effective, or we need to produce new energy sources somehow, or we need to go to space and become a spacefaring nation."
"If you think about the technological advancements that we’ve seen over the past 20, 30, 40 years, how can you be negative? It’s kind of crazy to me."
"Why do [the pessimists] have this kind of glass ceiling? It’s because they haven't experienced it. They haven't built something where you have agency enough to ship something in the real world."
"As I said, I'm a techno-optimist. I think the only way to get out of poverty and to tech our way out of it."
"Energy is, at the end of the day, the missing factor. So how do we end up producing more energy? We need more technology to make the energy that we have more effective, or we need to produce new energy sources somehow, or we need to go to space and become a spacefaring nation."
"If you think about the technological advancements that we’ve seen over the past 20, 30, 40 years, how can you be negative? It’s kind of crazy to me."
"Why do [the pessimists] have this kind of glass ceiling? It’s because they haven't experienced it. They haven't built something where you have agency enough to ship something in the real world."
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GM. Friday. A lot going on. Here's the line up:
- @rosstaylor90 (General Reasoning)
- @max_buchan (Valarian)
- @8eanmurray (Fuse Energy)
- @alirhaddad (XRlabs)
- @gluk64 (Matter Labs)
- Richard Starson (Stellios Technologies)
- @adijayaprakash (Blacksmith)
See you on the show.
- @rosstaylor90 (General Reasoning)
- @max_buchan (Valarian)
- @8eanmurray (Fuse Energy)
- @alirhaddad (XRlabs)
- @gluk64 (Matter Labs)
- Richard Starson (Stellios Technologies)
- @adijayaprakash (Blacksmith)
See you on the show.
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BREAKING: Valarian Founder and CEO Max Buchan (@max_buchan) dials in to The Arena at 1:00PM BST today.
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BREAKING: Airwallex Co-Founder and CEO Jack Zhang (@awxjack) joins Luke and Ronan in The Arena at 2:15PM BST today.
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Banking has been one of the slowest-changing industries in the world, and Rogo Co-Founder John Willett explained AI is now forcing the industry to adapt:
"This has been the most lethargic industry in the world to change......And that’s actually not a technology problem. That’s em."
"When there’s a splash of cold water like AI that is totally turning everything over, there’s a lot more re-examination of all the processes. And they’re like, 'Oh, maybe this was stupid. We actually could do it super different.'"
"For the first three years of our business, it was hard to get anything beyond minor productivity at the edges. People were not really rethinking their business models from the top down."
"Opus 4.5, late 2025, we just saw things turn from a time-savings play to a revenue play. That’s when the CEOs, COOs and senior MDs really started leaning in."
"This has been the most lethargic industry in the world to change......And that’s actually not a technology problem. That’s em."
"When there’s a splash of cold water like AI that is totally turning everything over, there’s a lot more re-examination of all the processes. And they’re like, 'Oh, maybe this was stupid. We actually could do it super different.'"
"For the first three years of our business, it was hard to get anything beyond minor productivity at the edges. People were not really rethinking their business models from the top down."
"Opus 4.5, late 2025, we just saw things turn from a time-savings play to a revenue play. That’s when the CEOs, COOs and senior MDs really started leaning in."
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