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How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry

2026-07-02 · 2 company · 3 thematic

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Jack Moskovich is a partner at 8VC who led the firm's investment in Outset. He works closely with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategy and organizational scaling.

joe lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

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“This is the killer application for insights and research with AI period. It's so obvious from what we've already talked about it's the killer application. So the market tipped and now you have the big research budgets at the big companies…”

—jack moskovich

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