Episode

Building Agents at Home: Parenting, Work, and Benevolent Neglect

Podcast: The a16z Show
Published: Apr 13, 2026
Duration seconds: 3279
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Summary

Katherine Boyle and Sarah Wang speak with Jesse Genet, a startup founder and family builder, about building 11 AI agents while homeschooling four young children. Jesse runs agents across roles ranging from coding to curriculum planning to household management, and she shares how agent architecture, logging systems, and “benevolent neglect” parenting have changed her life as both a founder and a mother.