Jesse Zhang
3 Mar 2026Wayve’s $1 5B, Perplexity Redemption, Revolut Eye’s $100B, Decagon Founder Joins
Jesse Zhang, Decagon CEO: AI Concierge, ElevenLabs & Voice Agents
Decagon co-founder and CEO Jesse Zhang joins live from London, where the company opened a King's Cross office as its European base after UK and European customers organically pulled them in. He explains the ElevenLabs partnership as part of sitting on top of model providers, describes the application layer's job of capturing each customer's business logic through 'Agent Operating Procedures,' and argues application-layer companies capture more of the value tied to the business pain they solve. He traces the arc from his January 2023 Papers GPT demo to a future where business concierge agents and consumer personal agents meet, and lays out the remaining voice work: keeping latency low and realism high while enforcing strict enterprise rules.
27 Feb 2026Wayve’s $1.5B, Perplexity Redemption, Revolut Eyes $100B, Decagon Founder Joins
Jesse Zhang (Decagon): AI Concierge & London Expansion
Decagon co-founder and CEO Jesse Zhang joins fresh off landing in London, explaining why the company spun up a King's Cross hub as its European base after organic customer pull and faster-than-expected European adoption. He covers the 11 Labs voice partnership, the application-layer thesis of capturing value tied to business pain (the water-bottle stand analogy), and the 'AI concierge' umbrella — from customer-service ROI to proactive outreach — powered by their AOP construct for encoding conversations. He closes on the future: every business running an external-facing agent, personal agents interoperating with them, and voice improving through better open-source models and lower latency.