For anyone who’s been curious about what AI Agents are, what they will do, and current deployed use cases at large enterprises, this is the podcast for you.

Joao Moura is Founder & CEO of CrewAI, the leading multi-agent platform. He previously was Director of AI Engineering at Clearbit which was acquired by Hubspot. I’m also joined by my colleague Eliot Durbin at boldstart ventures. We are fortunate to partner with Joao as a founder in our portfolio! This episode dives deep into the multi-agent world talking about how agents work, the tech behind the scenes, unlocks that are coming to the ecosystem to push use cases forward, and what tangible ROI agents are delivering for enterprises today. We go deep into topics like memory & caching, robotic process automation, what foundation model leaps are enabling in the ecosystem, and how to complete complex tasks with multi-agents. Whether you’re technical or not, you’ll love this episode as everyone will be experiencing agents either first hand or behind the scenes. And I strongly believe if you learn how to use agents now, it’ll position you for success in the very near future.

Where to Find Joao:

* Twitter: https://x.com/joaomdmoura

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaomdmoura/

Where to Find Eliot:

* Twitter: https://x.com/etdurbin

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliotdurbin/

Where to Find Shomik:

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/shomikghosh21

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shomik-ghosh-a5a71319/

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In this episode, we cover:

(02:00) – CrewAI Announcements: $18M raised from boldstart, Insight, Early Grey Capital, Craft Ventures, Andrew Ng, Dharmesh Shah; IBM Partnership, Celonis Partnership, New CrewAI course with Andrew Ng at DeepLearning AI w/ PWC Production Use Case

(05:11) – Origins of CrewAI & What the Platform Does

(10:24) – Early Enterprise Use Cases for Agents

(12:50) – How Does Agent Reasoning Work

(16:13) – LLMs vs RAG

(18:30) – How Many Crews are Running Daily

(19:50) – Building OSS in AI and How That Maps to Stakeholders Within Enterprises

(21:33) – “Last Mile” Problem for AI Adoption in Enterprises

(24:08) – Actual Product Use Cases in Enterprises

(33:44) – What Multi-Agent Means

(37:34) – Why AI Changes Economics for App & Feature Creation

(40:45) – RPA vs Agents

(43:06) – Biggest Unlock for Agent Adoption So Far

(45:24) – Chain of Reasoning Impact on AI

(49:45) – Enterprise Ready AI

(53:00) – Multi-Modal Impact on Agents

(55:00) – AI Wave vs Internet Wave

(57:11) – Future of Agent Adoption

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