I was on the WTF Online episode with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs in March 2026, where we explored how voice AI could become the next universal interface and what that means for founders.
A hypothetical $3 billion deployment fund was floated as a possible budget for scaling voice agents.
The key advice for young founders was to embed voice agents deep inside a specific "boring" vertical—automotive, healthcare, or e‑commerce—and aim to out‑perform the big labs in that niche. I linked this advice to my broader guidance in my founder advice page.