Short answer: Adir Ben-Yehuda says his biggest surprise is how unhappy people are with Figma; younger companies use less of it once on Autonomy. Teams also open fewer tasks in Jira or Linear because they just want to act on tasks.
Watch this answer from Episode 43 (starts at 15:22) · Episode 43 notes and transcript
From Episode 43: The AI Product Team Replacement? Inside Autonomy AI’s Live Demo, starting at 15:22.
Sam Nadler [15:21]: So I was, this as we segue into kind of autonomy more as a whole as apart from this demo, you mentioned I think a 160 people. You launched a 160 clients. You launched it about six months ago. What has surprised you in that six month period as more and more customers start using it? Just getting their feedback, something that you didn't interpret they would use it. Were new features launched based on their feedback, like that kind of the last feature about how you can get in and really, change the design a la Figma. What are some of those things that evolved since launching?
Adir Ben-Yehuda [15:54]: I think the one thing that really surprised me is the how unhappy people are from Figma today. And it's it's crazy to see it. Right? Because you see the last report, they're skyrocketing in terms of revenue. But I think it's like just, I would say, not all the agreements that they had, but enterprise agreements that they still have in place. But if you look at the younger companies, they wanna get rid of Figma. They think Figma is not relevant anymore and what we saw across the board, and not what we've intended, is when companies are starting to use us, they're using less and less Figma from that perspective. I think that's the one thing. I think the other thing that surprised us, and not necessarily in the last couple of months, but definitely in the last six months is the old guards, if you think about your Jira, even your Linear organizations, people don't don't want to use it anymore. They just want to get they don't need to manage task in a more I mean, cumbersome environment.
Adir Ben-Yehuda [16:46]: They just need to act on the task, and that's what they need to do. Right? So when they started using us, they're like, oh, okay. We can open less task in Jira. We can manage that thing on Monday dev from that perspective. We can do everything directly with you, and that's about it. Right? So I think it was the impact of like, okay, everyone is talking about Claude Code and everyone is talking about Codex or Cursor from that matter. But that this like, I think the amount of people that aren't happy from the old legacy products and the rate of innovation was just insane for me to see. Right? Like people are extremely not happy from what Figma is doing and how innovative they are. People are extremely not happy from how linear and are in terms of the rate of innovation, and they're just looking for every other solution under the sun.
