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Day 3 · Interview 09 of 1412:31 PM · Moscone West

Archie Sharma

Founder, Hops

A shared workspace where teams and their AI agents work in one place.

The full conversation

8:33 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

4:10 · Archie's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Your team moves at the slowest speed

“If you look at how AI is being used by people today, it's a one-on-one relationship between, you know, you have a relationship with the ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot, and then the other colleague has one. And you may be mo…”

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20 years of work. Six months.

“What we built at Hops is what we did, what our founder did at Wrike over the course of 20 years. We were able to build in about six months with 30 engineers. So building is easy, but building that enterprise-level ecosys…”

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Retrain your team every two months

“Also keeping the team move really fast in today's day and age you know because you have to kind of almost retrain your team every two months and everybody on the team needs to do that and so getting the right people who …”

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Not everything gets automated

“So I don't think everything will be automated. I think what is going to happen is basically the mundane tasks, the everyday tasks that people do not want to do is going to be automated. That already happened on the codin…”

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If it works, make it a process

“Be creative be hungry like you are that'll be second and then create a process if something works make it into a process like that would be third like and always keep an open mind around growth and don't be limited to yo…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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