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1027: Building an Always-On AI Agent for Busy Parents, with Dr. Dilani Kahawala

aired Sep 15, 2026 · 62.0m
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Summary

What if you could hire a tireless personal assistant for your whole family for 20 bucks a month?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, it's, think, including: My guest built one and parents are lining up to hand over their inboxes.

Key takeaways
  1. 01A Harvard PhD in physics, followed by McKinsey, and then a decade of product leadership at Etsy, Meta, and Atlassian, where she led a 150-person product organization before leaving
  2. 02In this episode, she reveals what it takes to build a long-running consumer agent that works for you around the clock and can't afford to get things wrong
  3. 03And we're pretty excited in building pretty much on the edge of what's possible with agentic tech
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