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Jean-Denis Greze
Co-founder & CEO, Town
Led Plaid’s EPD from $10M to $300M+ in ARR, then co-founded Town, an AI assistant for everyday work.
TownReal Alpha has cut 8 moments of Jean-Denis Greze (Co-founder & CEO, Town) talking, from an interview on a16z Podcast published Oct 19, 2026.
What Jean-Denis Greze said
- 3:04
A nearly $1M tax business still wasn’t venture scale
“But post-AI, this was not going to be a venture-scale company.”
at 4:53 - 24:35
A $1 monthly routine can save a restaurant thousands
“it's going to cost you like a dollar a month to run that thing.”
at 25:54 - 29:00
AI can make custom software scale better than FDEs Pro pick
“as the models get better, the FDE approach actually gets much worse.”
at 33:20 - 34:07
Town competes with AI labs through neutral models and portable data
“that if there was ever a better solution than town, switching to that other solution would take a day.”
at 38:13 - 52:29
Agents should answer to users, not advertisers
“The only source of money for the agent is your wallet as the user.”
at 54:47 - 18:14
Town earns access to company systems in stages
“simply by connecting their email and their calendar.”
at 19:24 - 45:37
AI adoption depends on showing people what to automate
“and the unlock is, is there someone over there that gets AI enough to want to tinker a solution to their problem?”
at 46:32 - 13:34
Great user experience should come before enterprise controls
“It is almost impossible to go from an experience that starts from the compliance IT enterprise requirements and then figures out how to make the product experience incredible”
at 14:19
- 3:04
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