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The Need for Agent-First Internet Infrastructure
The Need for Agent-First Internet Infrastructure
 ### a16z@a16z
The current internet wasn't built for agents.
"There’s a huge opportunity for startups to create these proxies… if someone would give me a scoped Gmail, I’d adopt it today."
"There are websites today where the majority of the revenue, and certainly the majority of profits, come from cross-selling. If this website is suddenly only used by agents, that doesn't work anymore, right?"
"All of these large consumer sites... they don't want agents, essentially."
"One interesting question here is: will the big incumbents catch up and offer their functionality for agents, or do we actually need new companies that cater to agents specifically?"
"Do we actually need to replace some of the big sort of SaaS building blocks of e-commerce, of online services, and redo them for agents?" @stuffyokodraws @appenz on the AI + a16z Podcast Show More
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Mar 19, 2026, 9:00 PM View on X
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One Sentence Summary
The tweet discusses the structural mismatch between the current internet and AI agents, suggesting a market opportunity for new agent-native SaaS solutions.
Summary
This analysis highlights that the current internet architecture is optimized for human users, not AI agents. The speakers suggest that there is a significant opportunity for startups to build 'proxies' or entirely new SaaS building blocks specifically designed for agentic workflows, as existing consumer sites may resist or fail to support agent-driven automation.
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