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“Like the world goes to who is most passionate, who is most ageentic. Because you can now do anything. You could be whatever you want. With ageentic tools, you could literally do anything. And what matters most is, how much do you care about the end result? And then your judgment and everything. And so I look for the fire in the eye because if you have that fire, you could literally do anything. It's actually crazy how meritocratic the world is becoming because of these agendic tools filling the gaps.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, people might not like this word, but I look for passion. Like someone just got fire in their eye. Do they really care about what we're doing? Or some aspect they're doing? I really want to scale this thing. Or I really want to sell this to everyone. Because why is that important? It was important five years ago, but I think it's especially important now because”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's hard to find maybe these days really exciting humongous projects and missions that other people aren't doing. And this one happens to be like organizing the world's information, making perfect search, that's very exciting and important for the world, but also like really hard problem. And engineers are really excited about that. And on the go-to-market side, it's like we're then selling this search to the whole world and we're selling to some of the coolest companies. And it's very exciting to them. They get to talk to like all these like hot companies and give them search that really helps their products. And so it's just an exciting space. And yeah, but it's very important to me. So I hope we maintain that forever.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What people want to work on and what we need perfectly aligned. This is like a magical thing. I don't know how that's possible. But yeah, so everyone's working on exactly what they want to work on. They're also working on multiple projects because AI tools will enable you to be productive in parallel. And so it's just, and then what we're doing is just super cool.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the engineering side, or even on the market side, or off side, everyone can work on whatever they want. So, for example, like we had someone who built the vector database who was like, hey, I want to go train models. I was like, okay, just go do it. And didn't really have experience in training models, but I was like, you're really smart. You'll learn it in like two weeks. And then you'll just do amazing work. And he's done amazing work. So, right. So like I make sure everyone's working on exactly what they want to work on. And luckily in search, it's like, at least in our space, like in any direction we improve things. It will be good for the business. So it's like, okay. And it actually happens to turn out somehow that”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yeah, like people are, it's very important that people are having fun, and that's necessary for doing the best work of your life. And I also would say having fun, just good vibes, but also it's very important that people work on the projects that are most exciting to them at any point. And so people, especially now with, you know, all these AI tools, like anyone.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is critical to me, and it should be critical to any company that wants to do great things. People need to be super excited about what they're doing, and I have a ton of fun, right? So you might have also heard at APM, like people are just laughing. They laugh a lot at EXA. And it's almost too loud sometimes. And it's like distracting. So you have to have like...”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anyway, Exa I think is a great name. I love Exa. One value of Exa is like, it's a great prefix. So like Exa anything, XA data, XA this, XA that. But Exome means 10th to the 18th, which is in contrast to Google, which is 10 to the 100th. And the idea there was like, you know, we're kind of overwhelmed with information. Even though you could technically find lots of things on the web on Google, that doesn't mean it's organized and you get the highest quality knowledge. And here it's like 10 to the 10th to the 18th is like you're extracting the most important information. It's still a very large amount of information 10 to the 18th, but it's not like overwhelming. So that was one of the ideas.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Starting the recruiting funnel early. That's good. But it's interesting how much those things matter. Yeah. We've already hired, we've hired people because of the goat.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I love that. And we put the swag on him. So it's like, it's a beautiful, yeah. And people stop by. So we're actually tons of people stop by. It's so beautiful. Even on Saturday and Sunday, which is when the coffee shop is very popular, like people come by and I go and I say hi to them. I talk to them. I talk them about. It's actually very beautiful. We're actually an important stop for kids on their walk to school. You know when you're a kid, you had like those stops that you like ice cream store. The goat is a stop and they're always taking very cute.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some part of me wanted a real goat. I don't know how we'd maintain the goat. I think the ROI would still be valuable. But then instead, we bought a nice fake goat.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, sure. Okay, so the goat thing is basically there was a coffee shop that opened up next door and so many people, so like the mayor of SF kept. Posting about it. And so a lot of people go. It's a really cool coffee shop, Hedge Coffee. And so many people are walking by. We're like, we got to have them stop and look at what XA is. So we have some posters about Exa on the entrance to our office, but we were like, how do we get them to stop? And so I was like, just put a go. I don't know why I thought this, but just put a goat there.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do a team stand up every Monday in front of the whole company. Now we have like this double floor office where people now are surrounding on the top floor. It's really cool. It's like a stadium. And I give like a speech and And I like to simplify what we're doing into what is the core? What is a memetic core? And come up with a cool name. And that inspires me. By the way, a name is really important because when you have a company of a certain size, people are constantly communicating in ways you're not, you're not part of those conversations. And the name really grounds the mission of that project. Yeah, absolutely. This is really important. I could think of like a day of just about a name.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One last thing that he does really well, which is like he's very good at memetic names and inspiring through memetic things. You realize that SpaceX's mission is not improved rockets to get to or like, oh, make rocket travel really fast, like good. It's like make humanity interplanetary. That's a really good memetic thing. So I think a lot about the names of projects and like”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And shows our passion. And that goes across everything from our marketing to engineering to go to market. And so that's exciting. Obviously, it doesn't scale. So one thing I've been learning as we scale the company is like, what details can I choose to go into? And so I like the eagle metaphor of like, you know, I'm an eagle flying above the company. And then when I see some detail that I think should be important to fix, like I go dive down and go into it and then come back up. So, I think Elon has some of those properties. Obviously, Elon is like all in every day for.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, first of all, the internship was magical. So, like, for example, I saw the first landing on the barge and just outside Michigan Control. I'm getting Tingle was just thinking about it. But yeah, like just seeing that, like people coming together to do something magical. Like, that was very inspiring and made a big impact on me. And yeah, in terms of my leadership style, yeah, I like to think that I've incorporated some of what I think are the best aspects of Elon. So, for example, he's very detail-oriented. He gets into details of everything. And for better or worse, I do that too at Exa. Everything from like The algorithms, like the vectorDB algorithm to the office space and making sure every part of the office is really just like inspires and like excites.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, what kind of search algorithms do? Well, actually, I was going to say at least thinking about when we're living in on Mars or whatnot, there's probably one other founder that has thought about that extensively, Elon.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're interesting fundamental questions here, like right now the web is like, let's call it a trillion pages that matter. What happens if the web were a thousand times bigger, like a quadrillion pages, meaning everyone started uploading data? Well, then any search algorithm that works over a trillion pages no longer, like it might work over a quadrillion pages, but it might be a thousand times more expensive. And that's not practical because if anything, we want search to get cheaper, not more expensive. So what kind of search algorithms work of our quadrillion pages? These are fascinating questions that like, I don't know if I've ever, ever heard anyone else talk about.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the world soup of information that we could search over. Yeah. And to fully understand the world, fully understand how props croppy yields are going to affect some company or Like, what are people thinking about the world, or how do we unite the world? That requires understanding the world at a deeper level. So I think the bottleneck will be data in a lot of ways. And then once you have... The problem is once you have all this data, now the bottom line.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know when even where our hunters and gatherers result from information, then they started writing things down. And the amount of information the world has been skyrocketing, there's still so much information that's not recorded. You know, you go from all the way from a first clay tablet, or really the first paintings on caves would be arguably the first time things were written down. And then clay tablets. And now in newspapers. And then obviously now we have the digital age, but there's so much information in your head, like satellite images that are not just like.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's an interesting bottle. In the same way, there's compute bottlenecks, there will be like infrastructure bottlenecks. I mean, it'll be solved at some point. Yes, and then other bottlenecks are like data bottlenecks. So agents are increasingly going to want to ask questions about the world and that data might not be on the web. It might not even be recorded anywhere. And so there will be this trend towards how can we accumulate all the world's data, like literally unearth the world's data. I'm really excited about this because the world is filled with information and it's not all recorded. The history of humanity is the world's been.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The infrastructure I handle that is insanely large. It just hasn't been built yet. So we're really excited to explore all sorts of cool new vector databases that have super high throughput, for example, things like that.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, well, initially, the bottleneck is going to be actually the infrastructure, which is kind of interesting. No one realizes, but if you actually get, for example, 10x, 100x, 1,000x more searches than Google.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What do you think? And there's some debate on this on the LLM side, on the training side, too. But what do you think is the bottleneck? Today versus, let's say, three years from now. I feel like five years is too far to predict. Is it? I think you've said in the past it's no longer intelligence in terms of bottlenecking search. Data, accessible data, how do you think about how that evolves?”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think less stuff searches like perfect information. So the world will be filled with like the highest quality information. And so, yeah, I mean, there is a lot of, when the world is filled with something, it's usually a large TAM. And yeah, if you just play out the numbers, we think it will be bigger than Google ads in 2030. Not that ads won't be a huge part of the world too. Ads are important for commerce. And that might be a percentage of the agentic search economy too. But yeah, it's just the numbers here are insane. And it really comes down to a belief Do you think LLMs will eat the world, will eat all software? And we have always believed that.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It follows a trend. And so, yeah, if you follow that trend even conservatively, you get to a massive TAM for agentic search in the 20s. I mean, even before like late 2020s and then early 2030s, basically the number, it's hard to express how many searches will come from agents, right? Humans on average make a couple searches a day. But agents, when everyone has a personal assistant and every single software tool you use is going to be checking its work with retrieval. Like the number of searches is going to be, we say thousands because that is understandable and grotbolded to people, but really it's going to be millions at some point. It's just going to be like the world's be filled with search in a way that the world is filled with electricity. It's a fundamental infrastructure that powers everything.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, just you could get this from basically like estimating the number of searches. So the number of LM calls and the number of percentage of those LM calls that require search, then the cost of the search. And then you just like play it out. And the trend has actually been pretty clear. And we've had pitch decks from years ago where we kind of predict where things will go. Maybe we're off by a quarter here or there, but it's like pretty.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On their use case. And if they have enough data to do A-B tests, that's the best. If they have something often they make their own evals, so sophisticated customers will make their own evals, super sophisticated customers will run A-B tests. And then customers who just want something might just look at evals that are published online. But certainly for the sophisticated customers when they test us, it becomes a lot clearer who's on the top. But yeah, we want to improve this ecosystem. We want to be like the research lab that helps improve this ecosystem and publishes things. And even if we're not at the top, we want to show. And so you'll see more coming out there.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Evals and they've been like benchmarks, and they're not really actually good representations of Agentic Search Like what ages actually need And so it is a problem in the industry where customers can't really know what is true, which is sad. It also demonstrates the need for a really good search engine to distinguish what is true. It's another example. But yeah, I mean, the ground truth for customers is their own A-B tests. And so when we do literally they are testing us versus other providers.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. No, 100% have been benchmarked in retrieval. There aren't too many evals in retrievals. That's one problem. There aren't that many standard third-party retrieval.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Serving now, over 5,000 businesses that are pushing us in all these crazy directions, like just like every day, it's like, why can't this be higher quality over companies or people? Like, why can't this be faster? Like, why can't Why can't the information extraction be even higher quality? And so we're being pushed in all these crazy ways. And that's why we're exploring all these research directions. Like research always follows need. So we have insane amounts of needs at EXA to do better. And so that's why we do all this crazy research”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then also, I think the biggest thing is actually we're because of our business model and who we serve, we've just been pushed in all these crazy directions because we're not serving 2 billion consumers who are kind of all the same, like 2 billion humans.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Compress what they want into like shorter phrases that are more for traditional search engines. So that was a cool blog post to explore and think it was really helpful for that. In general, our research is like the bitter lesson. So just like scaling laws in lots of different directions, some of the ones I mentioned, post-training, pre-training, RL, we've been pretty under the radar. Like, I don't think people don't realize how much research we're doing. We don't publish all of it, obviously. We don't publish much of it. But there is a lot to go and search. And I don't think people realize that. And I think we realized it because we've just been obsessed with it. One, crazily enough, like that's just as far as...”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“RLing on Exa does way better. It both uses fewer calls, so it's more efficient, and then it's higher performance. And this makes sense because, again, Exa was designed for agents to use. And so it just allows agents to make more complex queries. It's really capture what they actually want, as opposed to having to compress what they”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, at a high level, a lot of the big ideas in training LLMs apply equally well to trading search models. So, for example, like we do pre-training of embedding models, we do post training of embedding models. We do RL on search tools, right? So a lot of these things that are working in OLMs work in retrieval too, which is kind of interesting. And you don't hear a lot of people talking about. So yeah, in that RL blog post, we just basically try, like a lot of people RL on a search tool, but we haven't seen as much many studies like testing different search tools. And so we simply RL'd on SERP, so like Google wrapping versus Exa and found that, you know,”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That determines a costly inference. And if those weights are, if you're wasting those weights on all sorts of information about the world, like the Capuv France or this random blog that you read, you're just wasting tokens, sorry, you're wasting weights. Those weights should be focused only on intelligence processing. And you could probably get to models that are like 1 billion, even less than a billion parameters that are extremely hyper intelligent and completely Unknowledgeable, like, yeah. It's like Einstein, like, who never saw the world. It's kind of like the way to think about it. And then it uses tools that are very cheap and inefficient. And that's a much more efficient world that will help solve this like. This compute shortage is affecting everybody.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he's great. He had a tweet about this a couple, I think a couple years ago where it was like the trend is towards smaller raw intelligence modules using tools. And that trend will, like, that's an important trend because you have a limited, like the cost of the model is determined by the number of weights.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From the web does the agent actually see. But yeah, in general, smaller models using retrieval is much more efficient. And like Andre Carverthy had a tweet about, I keep mentioning Andre Carverthy on Twitter. I know we all do”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, sure. So, like retrieval can help solve the token apocalypse because we should not be using gigantic models for every test. We should be using, and people are starting to realize this. Like, you should use a family of models of different sizes. The big model decides what to do and it dishes out commands to the small models. And those small models can be way more accurate and reliable if they're using retrieval. So retrieval helps small models act like big models in a cheap way. And so we do save our customers a huge amount of tokens because they can use smaller models and use retrieval. They could also, we care a lot about this. So we have like, we've put a lot of research effort into how to, you know, extract only the most relevant information from documents so that these models can just not have to consume too much tokens because any sort of input tokens can dramatically increase spend. So we could like, we could save like 20x on cost for customers compared to other providers by being very efficient in what information does.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet perfect, but we're extremely good at search over any sort of coding material. And so, yeah, so a bunch of coding agents try us, like cognition, for example, we've talked about Esther try to us, like we power Devon now, and they've just found when they tested it that it just makes Devon way better, way more accurate, make way fewer mistakes, which really matters. And this will just continue. By the way, like, you can also think about coding agents as just like. Every agent is going to wanna do everything. And so it's not just searching over code, it's also at some point searching over the world's information, just being up to date with the news. Because if the coding agent will become your agent, it's like, I think coding agents and just general agents are going to merge. And it's an interesting trend.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, for sure. So every agent at some point, agents are like humans. At any point when you're coding or when humans used to code, you would have to look up information, right? Because you want the most recent technical documentation, or you might look at a blog for inspiration. And so agents are very similar. In particular, they really want the freshest information so that every line of code they write does not have some critical error. And especially with coding agents, like the stakes are so high that, again, every extra nine of quality matters. So these coding agents are very intelligent right now. But in terms of retrieval quality, they've been in the dark ages or the dark ages of the early 2000s in terms of search quality, but like search can be way better over coding it, you know, we're talking technical documentation. We're talking SDKs, just like perfect, perfect retrieval over the syncs. That was our goal. And so we're not.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I like to think from verse principles. The first principles idea here is that the agenda economy is going to be huge. Like basically, we're all going to have agents and those agents are going to be participating, you can imagine it's like agenda economy and cyberspace. We're basically they're doing like commerce. They're like reading information. It's like everything we do on the internet. They're doing but like a thousand times bigger, right? So there's a massive amount of value in the safety economy, meaning money. And so if there's so much value, like instead of like, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars going to one company, what if, you know, 50 billion dollars a year went to one company and the other 150 billion went to all the content providers, right? Like there's ways to distribute the value in this new agenda economy that are more favorable towards providers of content. And like this is kind of how I think. And by the way, it won't be too hundred, but it'll be a trillion dollars a year of value. So totally.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so I want to get to the ideal world where you have perfect search and then everyone's intentivized to create amazing content, even more so than before. I actually think there's an opportunity here, and I'll talk about how to create a system where content providers are making more revenue. Because they are participating in this massive agentic economy.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How does search become less and less commodity? Well, it's always about really good retrieval and really good data. So if you do perfectly on both those things, you have all the data and you have all the best possible retrieval, that is perfect search. And so it is like both accumulating all the web's data, accumulating data that's not on the web, and then trading extremely powerful models to search over it. Those have always been the two, like index and retrieve have always been the two pushes at EXA on the engineering side since five years ago.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not the body. You can start to see that search is like a bigger thing that people don't think of search as like In 1998, you see a text box, you type in a few keywords, you get a few things. Like that was searched. No, like. Search is way broader. Search is coordinating the human species around anything we're trying to do”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, and this gets in your earlier part of your question, I was like, what allows for this differentiation? So it's a long answer to how to.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, lonely is a search problem, and especially in a city life, like it's hard to find other people with similar interests or you might bond with. And this is like, you know, with a perfect search engine with whatever information people are willing to share, it would help to find other people. So for example, I have a lot of crazy ideas about flying cars. I really want flying cars. I hate cars on the road.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of people are feeling lonely in modern society. Well, it's because they're not finding people to hang out with or to be in relationships with, right? Yeah.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would argue that's a search problem because there are people out there who want to, everyone wants to understand the world, most people want to understand the world, but they're getting fed information that's just like misleading in some way or straight up wrong. And if everyone had information that was accurate and controllable and comprehensive, I think most reasonable people would be reasonable. And I think because our information environment is so chaotic, is so polarized. It's causing reasonable people to be unreasonable. By the way, I'm part of this. I'm sure I have incorrect beliefs on all sorts of political things because my information is not perfect. It's something I really want to solve”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yeah, that's an example. I think you just want comprehensive that are relevant. And by the way, it's a very beautiful thing. You didn't ask this, but I think one beautiful thing about search is that a lot of important problems in the world are actually search problems dressed up in a different way.”
2026-06-06 · a16z Podcast · Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source