Jordan Fisher (@JordanFisherEzr) is the co-founder & CEO of Standard AI and now leads an AI alignment research team at Anthropic. In his talk at AI Startup School, he frames the future of startups through questions rather than answers—asking how founders should navigate a world where AGI may be just a few years away. 0:00 – Why He's More Confused Than Ever 2:00 – Should You Even Start a Startup? 5:00 – Planning Beyond the Next Model 8:00 – Will Software Be Commoditized? 11:00 – Building AI-Native Teams 14:00 – Trust, Security, and Agents 18:00 – Auditing & Guardrails 21:00 – Alignment & Economic Pressure 24:00 – Data, Defensibility, and Hard Problems 28:00 – Neutrality and Control 32:00 – Changing the World vs. Just Making Money 36:00 – Build Something People Want (and Need) 39:00 – Audience Q&A