
Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Marco Palladino (CTO & co-founder, Kong) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 20, 2026.
What Marco Palladino said
AI success shows up in outcomes, not token savings
“if you put a dollar of token spend in how many dollars of outcomes are you generating out of that spend”
Marco Palladino6:09 Agents need infrastructure beyond a typical SaaS stack
“I don't want to focus on stitching together like this mosaic of different services and platforms.”
Marco Palladino10:46 Workers will shift from doing tasks to orchestrating agents
“we're going to be the architects of agentic loops where the agents do the work for us”
Marco Palladino20:21 Agent platforms need built-in workflows and human approvals
“Being able to then have human approvals out of the box, being able to implement capabilities like distributed locking”
Marco Palladino12:12
The episode
AI Agents Will Automate Entire Enterprise Orgs | Marco Palladino
Marco Palladino · CTO, Kong
4:49of 25:34 · Oct 20
