Corporate America mandated AI adoption in 2026, creating immediate demand for AI tools and accelerating enterprise deployment.

A new DoorDash founded today would be built agentic-first rather than app-first.

“If someone were to create Door Dash today like I don't know like college kids in a garage trying to start Door Dash I think it would look very different probably more agentic first.”

There has been a 300% increase in Slack agent usage.

“I think I read somewhere that there's been like a 300% increase in Slackbot Slack agent usage.”

AI adoption among knowledge workers will go from 10 basis points (0.1%) to 1-2%, then 3-5%, then 15% over the next four years.

“You're going to go from 10 bips to one to two or 3% to 5% to 15% in the next four years.”

Mercor added $300 million in net new ARR in the last 60 days.

“We've expanded our relationships with all of the Frontier Labs and added 300 million in net new ARR in the last 60 days.”

By end of 2026, video agents will achieve production-quality video generation, representing an inflection point for enterprise adoption.

“I guess by the end of this year is this is going to be a big hit. So the inflection point will be where and the videos generated by video agents can get to like production great qualities.”

Open-source agent tools like OpenClaw are being adopted as officially sanctioned enterprise tools, driven by CEO-level AI mandates.

“We're starting to see to our own surprise actually people adopting openclaw as a legitimate sanctioned tool in the company because the CEO is very driven to adopt AI.”