▶ 39:26 · $WDAY · Gary Tan: Workday's thousands of engineers not using agentic systems, vulnerable to disruption

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YC Demo Day, Spoon = Bent (Again), Boring Company Raises, Apple Duo 2 Predictions

2026-09-10 · 8 company · 11 thematic

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speakers

CEO of Y Combinator who wrote about the 'power of witnessing' — the unique value of human partners acknowledging founders' struggles in a way AI cannot replicate.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

jordi hays

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show covering startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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“you look at uh you know a workday it's full of thousands of engineers who are not you know using agentic systems and like I would argue that like a lot of those uh you know first wave data companies don't like they're basically kind of lik…”

—gary tan

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