Can an AI Agent Run Sales Without You?

**Brian** (0:00)
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to The Daily AI Show. We're live. It's 10 a.m. on the East Coast, 7 on the West. And with me today is Andy and Beth. It's August 4th, 2026
And this is episode 782, which means we're coming up quickly on 800 Before we get to 800, though, we will have our three year anniversary show this upcoming Friday. So if you get a chance to come check that out, whether it be live or on replay, that'd be super cool. We're doing our best to try to get all the names and faces in. Don't have a confirm list yet, but we're just talking to Aaron. And Aaron is going to do his best. Aaron is in Perth, Australia. And for those that don't remember Aaron, he's done well over 100 of our nearly 800 shows, but it is also 12 hours later for him. So it's always been tough for him to jump on, but he's going to do his best on Friday, which I thought was really, really cool. I just heard from Anne and it sounds like Anne is going to do her best to jump on on Friday as well, although he won't have Anne today. She was just telling us that. So all the stuff in the background, the website is also still being built. You've been following along with us and it's getting closer and closer. All the names and headshots and bios are in today. So that's really exciting. It's the little things and Beth, you're working on the more advanced data side of the background of it. So, yeah, we're excited. We'll have a brand new website available to everybody by Friday. We'll launch it on Friday. So all good things from the AI news side of things for The Daily AI Show.
But of course, there's lots of news that is out there as well. And so with that, let me turn it over to you, Andy. And what was the AI news story that caught your eye over the last 24?

**Andy** (1:43)
Well, just this morning, I got the first inkling of news about Fiji Simo, the former president of Product at OpenAI, who had to leave that executive position at OpenAI because she has struggled for seven years with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, which I don't know much about that particular syndrome, but sounds like it's racing heart. Okay, Beth, tell us what POTS is. You're on mute, Beth.

**Beth** (2:20)
Familiar with it, yeah.
It affects your ability to self-regulate and your heart responds to being upright and various other things in ways that other people's don't. It can be absolutely debilitating.

**Andy** (2:43)
Yeah. So think about it as when she might stand up, her heart would race uncontrollably. And I think that's kind of like what the symptoms might be for that particular syndrome.

**Beth** (2:57)
Sometimes you pass out, right? Yeah. Your whole, it does not function the way that everybody else's airplane functions. Your readers are like, what just happened?

**Andy** (3:10)
Yeah. So actually, I mean, this is maybe TMI, but I had a syncope, which is where you pass out.
They tried, cardiologists tried to find something to explain why that would have happened. And the only thing that discovered it was finally, someone said, let's do the tilt table test. And what they do is they put you on a bed and they strap you in. And then that bed comes up right like this.
And you don't have anything to stand on. And in that position, blood runs down to your feet. And normally, your system would compensate for that by contracting blood vessels, vascular constriction and increase your heart rate and all of that. Well, I have a condition that 5% of the human population has that can be discovered by this tilt table test. Which in response to that, posture will change. So when I'm in the upright position and not able to pump my legs or otherwise do that, well, I'll pass out. And I passed out within one minute of being hung on that bed like that. And then after they kind of put me back down, the people in the room are high five and then, wow, we got one. They found the test. Now, my condition is such that I just unconsciously compensate for it.
I can pump my calf muscles or whatever, and I don't even know I'm doing it. So I just kind of rock back and forth, and that changes everything for me. Anyway, that's about me. It's not about AI, but it's about these kinds of conditions that have affected Fiji Simo to the degree that she had to leave her executive position. But do not despair, Fiji Simo's incredible expertise and talent are going to good use, because she's just formed a new startup. It's called Chronicle Bio.