# Marco Palladino

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/builders/marco-palladino/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Marco Palladino (CTO & co-founder, Kong) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 20, 2026.

- Role: CTO & co-founder, Kong
- Company: [Kong](https://realalpha.app/companies/#kong)
- On X: https://x.com/subnetmarco

## What Marco Palladino said

- [AI success shows up in outcomes, not token savings](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-success-shows-up-in-outcomes-not-token-savings/)
  MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “if you put a dollar of token spend in how many dollars of outcomes are you generating out of that spend” — Marco Palladino · [6:09](https://realalpha.app/v/OXa_n3uuwnI/?t=369)
- [Agents need infrastructure beyond a typical SaaS stack](https://realalpha.app/s/agents-need-infrastructure-beyond-a-typical-saas-stack/)
  MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “I don't want to focus on stitching together like this mosaic of different services and platforms.” — Marco Palladino · [10:46](https://realalpha.app/v/OXa_n3uuwnI/?t=646)
- [Workers will shift from doing tasks to orchestrating agents](https://realalpha.app/s/workers-will-shift-from-doing-tasks-to-orchestrating-agents/)
  MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we're going to be the architects of agentic loops where the agents do the work for us” — Marco Palladino · [20:21](https://realalpha.app/v/OXa_n3uuwnI/?t=1221)
- [Agent platforms need built-in workflows and human approvals](https://realalpha.app/s/agent-platforms-need-built-in-workflows-and-human-approvals/)
  MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “Being able to then have human approvals out of the box, being able to implement capabilities like distributed locking” — Marco Palladino · [12:12](https://realalpha.app/v/OXa_n3uuwnI/?t=732)

## The episode

- [AI Agents Will Automate Entire Enterprise Orgs | Marco Palladino](https://realalpha.app/v/OXa_n3uuwnI/) · MTS · Oct 20, 2026