Shawn Yeager
shawnyeager.com/now
Agentic AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Two questions interest me deeply. What breaks when the user isn't human? What gets built instead?
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Professional title:
Founder, Upshift
What do you do?
I run Upshift, helping companies commercialize AI before they’re on the wrong side of it, and write Sideband on the infrastructure shifting underneath it all.
Why?
Every wave of new technology hits the same wall: the product works before the market knows what to do with it. I’ve been on the commercial side of technology the market hasn’t caught up to for 30 years, starting on Microsoft’s first browser team.
What should we read?
“Walden, or Life in the Woods” by Henry David Thoreau