Kristina Shen

Mar 26, 2024 | a16z.com | Kristina Shen |Zeya Yang |Jay Rughani |Ali Yahya

An enduring promise of new technologies is to find ways to increase human productivity. Software and robotics, for example, have always presented immense potential to automate repetitive mundane tasks that humans perform, freeing them up to do more valuable work. In the last few decades, we’ve made meaningful progress toward this goal, and the first generation of robotic process automation created some massive companies, such as UiPath. Yet, we never made it past the most simple tasks.