Monday.com Co-Founder: "We Changed the Vision of the Company Completely" | Roy Mann on the Agent Economy
The AI Report PodcastShow Notes
Monday.com has 225,000 customers and over 60,000 seats at some of its largest accounts. So when its co-founder says the company completely changed its vision, that is worth paying attention to.
In this episode, Liam Lawson sits down with Roy Mann, co-founder of Monday.com, to talk about the three waves of AI, why managing work is no longer the goal, and how Monday is now betting everything on agents actually doing the work instead.
Roy also breaks down Agent Talent, the marketplace where companies can hire AI agents like employees, why Monday opened its platform to agents as first class citizens, and what adaptability really means when technology is moving this fast.
Stories Covered This Week:
The three waves of AI and why wave three changes everything
Why Monday changed its core vision from managing work to doing the work
Agent Talent: hiring AI agents like employees with real job postings and qualifications
Selling to agents, not just humans, and what that marketing looks like
The SaaS apocalypse and whether the per seat model is actually dead
OpenClaw, open source AI, and why Roy thinks this is a democratic technology
The future of work, abundance vs scarcity, and why adaptability is the only skill that matters
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro 00:45 The three waves of AI 03:42 Customer reception to agents 07:16 The developer who went from terrified to empowered 10:33 What personality traits succeed in the agent economy 12:16 Monday's internal AI infrastructure 19:44 Agent Talent and selling to agents 24:50 How to sell to an agent 27:37 Testing and qualifying agents with Sensei 30:22 Why open source matters 32:22 The future of work 36:44 Is the per seat model dead? 39:51 OpenClaw and local models 44:04 Paperclip and multi-agent orchestration 52:09 Roy's ideal future of work 56:42 Betting everything on agents with Monday stock down 76% 01:00:00 Where Monday's adaptability comes from 01:01:43 Why do you do what you do?
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