This week on Built 2 Scale, Matt and Scotty dissect the agent workforce transformation as companies redesign org charts with AI reports-to structures, Figure AI's staggering capital appetite hits new heights with a dedicated fundraising team, and autonomous websites that evolve based on competitor moves. Plus: Why young people are abandoning the internet, the ChapGPT-Slack integration strategy breakdown, and Meta's AR glasses distribution disaster.

Built 2 Scale | Episode 27

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Scott's Italian Adventure: Lake Como Meetings & Tuscany Pitches

2:14 Elon Loses a Customer: Matt Ditches Tesla for Toyota

4:47 Scotty's Stock Picks: Called the Crypto Crash & Market Top

5:58 Figure AI's Brad Adcock: "Assembling Capital Formation Team to Raise Tens of Billions"

8:04 Sam Altman's $250K Car Troll vs Paul Graham

9:21 Meta Finally Cracked VR (The Animation We Can't Show You)

10:49 Matt's China Trip: UniTree Factory Visit Plans

12:53 Jensen Huang & Lisa Su: GPU Empire Cousins Revealed

14:18 Autonomous Websites: Flint's $5M Round for Self-Evolving Sites

17:30 AI Slop vs Real Content: The Coming Bifurcation

18:38 Greg Isenberg Data: Under-25s Abandoning Internet for First Time

21:12 Human Reaction to AI Avatars & Seeking Real Content

24:30 The Bifurcation: When to Use AI vs Real Experiences

25:47 N8N's Natural Language Workflow Builder: The Real Unlock

29:11 Cursor's Browser Control: Final Piece of Autonomous Software Production

31:21 McKinsey's 4 Stages of Agentic Workflows

33:22 Designing Org Charts with Agents: Automate the Ordinary, Elevate the Extraordinary

37:43 High Agency People & Building Agents Across Departments

40:09 The Construction Site OS: Let Agents Handle Admin, Focus on Humans

44:19 Could Agents Manage Humans? The Upstream Instruction Revolution

46:39 OpenAI AgentKit vs N8N: Jevons Paradox & Market Creation

51:26 ChatGPT Integration into Slack: Commercial Strategy Breakdown

54:08 BuildPass AI: 80-90% Accuracy Answering Cross-Timezone Questions

59:00 Will Apple Buy OpenAI? The Operating System Layer Opportunity

59:56 Robot Rundown: Figure 03 Launch Analysis

1:02:50 Figure vs Optimus: The Alfa Romeo Problem

1:05:24 Brett Adcock's 20-and-2 Fundraising Fee Structure Theory

1:06:46 Jensen: "Everything That Moves Will Be Done By Robots Soon"

1:08:47 The Robot FOMO Ad: Neighbor Drinking Chardonnay While You're Covered in Grass

1:09:31 Tool of the Week: iPhone Action Button + Grok = One-Touch Voice AI

1:11:49 Apple Shortcuts: The Underutilized Workflow Builder

1:12:54 Meta AR Glasses: Distribution Disaster at Best Buy

1:15:47 Oakley AI Athletic Glasses: Eliminating the Apple Watch

1:17:21 Top 3 Rankings: Goggles, AR, or Zuckerberg?

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