AI agents are running into that 60% wall right as private markets start feeling less like locked rooms and more like live wires.
This is Tech Podcast Podcast. Today, we’re pulling out the sharpest new tech-podcast conversations on agent reliability, hidden churn, crowdfunding’s weak spots, and the push toward continuous liquidity.
Monday came in hot.
It really did — so, first up: the agents.
From Jason Lemkin at SaaStr:
We’re three humans and 20+ AI agents now. More agents check into our Slack every day, including Saturdays and Sundays, than humans do. Amelia (our Chief AI Officer) and I recorded Episode #02 of The Agents this week to walk through everything that happened with our agent stack: the wins, the defeats, and the ones that caught us off guard.
That’s the AI ops story people skip over. Agents don’t just do tasks; they create a whole new layer you have to manage. And if nobody’s checking the work, your automation stack can quietly turn into a very confident intern with admin rights.
Now, on the capital side — from Nick Morgan at Crowdfund Insider:
In a recent episode of Capital Ideas, ICAN’s Nick Morgan, Mark Hiraide, and Dara Albright sat down with Silicon Prairie Founder and CEO David Duccini to unpack what’s actually working in modern capital formation and what isn’t.
The word to underline there is liquidity. Crowdfunding can get investors in the door, sure. But if they can’t eventually get out, you don’t really have a capital system yet — you’ve got a pitch deck with a payment button.
Links to everything we covered today are in the show notes. So if one of these threads sounded worth your time, that’s the place to keep going.
That’s Tech Podcast Podcast for this Monday. This is a Lantern Podcast.