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Yoko Li
1 episodes · 7 quoted claims
Yoko Li said a rule of thumb in infrastructure is per-seat pricing for human-used services and usage-based pricing for machine-used services.
“a rule of thumb, not always the case, is that if the service is used by a human, it's a per seat pricing, and if it's a service is used by other machines, it's a usage-based pricing.”
The a16z Show · 0:20:32
Yoko Li said voice agents are taking over work traditionally done by receptionists.
“there's a lot of, for example, voice agents that replace receptionists.”
The a16z Show · 0:11:27
Yoko Li said headcount growth is slowing in some areas as companies hire fewer new people rather than replacing existing staff.
“we are seeing headcount growths in some areas are slowing, so it's not that existing jobs are being replaced, it's more like they're hiring net new humans slower.”
The a16z Show · 0:11:27
Yoko Li listed coding agents, art agents and simple LLM wrappers among the types of agents.
“there's agent that's just a wrapper around of LLMs.”
The a16z Show · 0:02:52
Yoko Li described an AI SDR agent as one that pulls data from a CRM, filters a list, drafts an email and sends it.
“when we talk about AISDR agents, what we mean by that is when the agent can go to the CRM, pull something out, and then filter the list, draft an email and send the email.”
The a16z Show · 0:14:55
Yoko Li said Pokémon Go players must pay to buy extra virtual bag storage once their storage fills up.
“you need to pay extra to buy a new bag, virtual bag, that you can put more Pokémon in.”
The a16z Show · 0:23:28
Yoko Li said GPT's image model excels at only a few styles, such as Ghibli and manga, and she expects specialists to push beyond the model's distribution.
“So like, a very artistic example of this is that I've been spending the last two weeks just prompting GPT for other image model.”
The a16z Show · 0:27:41