Jean-Denis "JD" Grèze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, the AI work assistant reportedly in talks to raise funding at a $1BN valuation. Before founding Town, JD spent seven years as CTO of Plaid. Before Plaid, he was Director of Engineering at Dropbox. He is also a prolific angel investor backing companies including Modal, BaseTen, Merge and NexHealth. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:08 - Why Town Pivoted From AI Tax to AI Assistants 04:09 - Can Town Survive Google, Apple and OpenAI? 06:14 - Why AI Assistants Could Have Network Effects 08:48 - Will Everyone Have One AI Agent or Many? 11:01 - Will We Trust AI Agents With Our Private Data? 17:16 - Are Goal-Seeking AI Agents a Feature or a Bug? 19:30 - How Town Chooses Between OpenAI, Anthropic and Open Models 22:33 - Can AI Assistant Economics Ever Reach SaaS Margins? 25:05 - Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Gets the Workloads? 29:56 - How Should VCs Invest in the AI Assistant Race? 33:4...