The Autonomous Business

Mark Pincus is the founder of Zynga, which went from a poker app on Facebook to a $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. His new book, Life at the Speed of Play, introduces the Proven Better New framework: kill your ego, copy what works, and innovate only the core. In this episode, Pincus explains why AI has made the MVP trap worse, not better. He shares the "failure machine" concept h...

Ariel Klikstein co-founded Elementor, the visual builder behind 20 million websites and 13% of the top internet. Barak Friedman leads marketing at Sticklight, Elementor's full-stack creation platform for professionals. Ten years in, vibe coding lets anyone build a website by talking to an AI. So what happens to the people who built careers doing exactly that? In this conversation, Klikstein admits...

Cybersecurity solved detection. It did not solve speed. Marina Segal, co-founder and CEO of Tamnoon.io , explains why your biggest security risk is not finding the vulnerability. It is the 30+ days it takes to fix it. She breaks down how agentic remediation works, why security is following the self-driving car trajectory, and what every business leader (not just CISOs) needs to understand about pr...

Eynat Guez is the Co-Founder and CEO of Papaya Global, the leading enterprise platform for global workforce management and payments across 160+ countries. She is the first and only woman in Israel to lead an Israeli-founded startup to a valuation exceeding $1 billion. In this episode, Eynat breaks down what happens when AI agents become an official part of the workforce: who pays the taxes, who ke...

120,000 new songs hit streaming platforms every day. Half of them are AI-generated. A quarter billion songs are already out there, and 75% of them never reach 1,000 streams. Gadi Gidor, one of Israel's most influential music executives, has spent 25 years building the careers of artists like Eli Botner, Ran Danker, Idan Raichel, and Noam Kleinstein. In this episode of The Autonomous Business, he s...

A16Z partner Bryan Kim sits down with Mickey Haslavsky to unpack how AI rewrote the rules of venture capital, why polished products no longer matter, and what happens when agents start rewriting their own programs. Bryan leads consumer AI investing at Andreessen Horowitz. His portfolio includes ElevenLabs, Function Health, Captions, and Cluely. Before A16Z, he was an early operator at Snap and lat...