What podcasts say about Noah Shin
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What Noah Shin has said on podcasts
23 statements · 18 positive · 2 negative · 3 neutral
Instinct will create a new way for most people to interact with technology.
“I think out of this will come a new way that most people on the planet interact with technology broadly.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 2:01
Instinct can perform essentially any internet task for users.
“It can do quite literally anything that you might want to do or that you do yourself on the internet.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 4:24
- on Instinct calendar coordinationPositiveSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Instinct will fundamentally change how users schedule calendar meetings.
“I think the way that you can find time on a calendar now is just so different where you just say your intention.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 8:07
The internet will be substantially rewritten by agent interfaces.
“I do think the internet's going to be rewritten.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 13:24
Most people will interact with software in fundamentally different ways.
“I think that the way that most people on the planet interact with software is going to be very, very different.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 13:26
- on agent-mediated restaurant reservationsPositiveSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Agent-mediated reservations will increase users’ access to special restaurant events.
“That will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 15:32
Instinct will use stored preferences to simplify future travel bookings.
“When you're staying anywhere in the future, it will be able to use that memory and be able to now make it a much easier experience for you in the future to be able to book that according to exactly what you want.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 17:32
Instinct firewalls can block malicious content before it influences the agent.
“any piece of content, any piece of text, anything, any form of media that comes in that might be consumed by instinct goes through what we call these firewalls, which can intercept, that can reject, that can block malicious pieces of content coming in, hitting instinct and trying to convince instinct to do something.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 24:06
Instinct should act according to the user’s interests.
“Instinct should act on behalf of what the user wants.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 26:44
- on Instinct transaction take rateNeutralSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Instinct will monetize through a transaction take rate charged for merchant distribution.
“I see a blanket transaction take rate being enforced across the platform, which is just us exchanging distribution for being able to serve products on behalf of merchants.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 28:40
- on Instinct distribution take ratePositiveSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Instinct aims to capture a relatively high distribution take rate.
“I'm looking at, can we provide so much value that we're on the upper end scale of this?”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 30:57
- on digital services and industriesNeutralSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Most digital services and industries will be transformed by agents.
“I think most digital services or industries are going to be not disrupted, but just changed and transformed.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 32:56
- on Instinct rideshare coordinationPositiveSep 28, 2026· Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Proactive agents could automatically arrange rides and eliminate booking friction.
“What if instinct always had a car lined up for you every time where you need to be so that it's out of your mind to know in five minutes I need to order this Uber because I need to be in this place in 45 minutes and there might be traffic.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 34:40
Businesses benefiting from transaction volume will gain from Instinct’s lower friction.
“if your business benefits from more transaction volume, even at the cost of less time on the application, then you're going to be in a really great spot because Instinct is going to make it 100 times easier to do that.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 37:36
Product builders should prioritize understandability over showcasing capabilities.
“let's not focus on capability. Let's only focus on understandability.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 41:23
Instinct is currently among the most capable AI products.
“I think that Instinct is quite capable and is one of the most capable products out there.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 44:11
Instinct’s user base was growing approximately 10–11% daily.
“now I believe we're like 10% or 11% day over day.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 46:38
Instinct matches Opus 5 performance at comparatively low cost.
“we're able to deliver the same performance as Opus 5, which is now, I guess, we're dating ourselves, frontier-level intelligence.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 50:29
Proactive agents will require orders of magnitude more compute than expected.
“the amount of compute that is going to be needed is going to be orders of magnitude more than what we thought that we needed.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 53:19
Software will converge into a single easy-to-use interface.
“I think that all of software is going to collapse down into a single very, very easy to use interface.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 1:03:28
Agents will progress from daily tasks toward pursuing users’ higher-level objectives.
“I think that it will start towards pursuing a higher level. objectives that are aligned with teaser where the user is able to describe not just, hey, can you track this workout for me?”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 1:03:49
Small businesses will increasingly operate entirely on Instinct.
“I see small businesses being run now that are native to instinct itself, meaning the entire business is now run on instinct.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 1:04:22
Instinct should not pursue relationship-building with users.
“relationship building or anything in that area. is not something that we want instinct to do or to pursue or to develop with users.”
Open the episode · Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.493]Listen at 1:05:39
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