Wayfound, Destiny, and Passion with Dr. Tatyana Mamut

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this conversation, Dr. Tatyana Mamut, CEO of Wayfound AI, shares her unique journey from being an immigrant in the United States to leading a company focused on AI agents. She discusses her academic background in economics and anthropology, her experiences growing up in immigrant communities, and the influence of her family's engineering legacy. Tatyana also reflects on her high school and college experiences, her passion for modeling human behavior, and the importance of aligning with one...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ard Labs podcast. Our special guest today is Dr. Tatiana Mahmute, who is the CEO of Wayfound AI.
0:28.1	Hi, Dr. Tatiana.
0:29.7	I'm just going to say Tatiana moving forward, if that's okay.
0:33.7	I mean, you earned your doctor, so we have to say doctor.
0:37.2	But I want to pretend we're friends, even though I've never met you before until now.
0:42.0	And that should be cool.
0:44.0	Maybe we're friends in a past life.
0:45.5	You never know.
0:46.6	It could be.
0:47.7	I mean, yes, it's true.
0:49.6	You never know.
0:50.9	All right.
0:51.8	Tatia, give everybody the two-minute, just two-minute spiel on what you're doing today.
0:59.7	So Wayfound is a AI agent management platform, and I am the co-founder and CEO of Wayfound.
1:09.6	You may have heard, and your listeners may have heard, that 2025 is going to be the year of AI agents.
1:16.0	And when we get into my story, you might say, what is an anthropologist doing, starting a company about AI agents?
1:23.3	Do you have some background in technology.
1:25.2	We can talk about that, too.
1:26.4	But the big sort of highlight there
1:29.0	and the headline is that what's going to be happening is a massive shift in the culture of our
1:36.5	companies and in the culture of our society writ large. And my co-founder, who's the technical co-founder, has a degree in anthropology, in a
1:46.4	philosophy. I have a degree in economics and anthropology. We both worked on big tech products
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