29:09Re-inventing Customer Support with AGI w/ Jonathan Corbin
Jonathan Corbin, the founder and CEO of Maven AGI, is backed by some of the best investors in the industry, like Sequoia, M13, and Lux Capital. Jonathan shares his journey from managing 1,000 people at HubSpot to starting his own AI startup, where he got together with Sami Shalabi (Founder of Google News) and Eugene Mann (Product Lead at Stripe). He discusses the evolution of customer support and the role of generative AI in improving customer experiences. Corbin emphasizes the importance of ingesting and analyzing data from various sources to provide personalized interactions and take complex actions. He envisions a future where customer support is streamlined, siloed systems are eliminated, and AI agents have contextual knowledge of customers. Corbin also advises aspiring entrepreneurs to focus on solving the actual problem with a first-principles mindset and leverage their specialized knowledge and skills.