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"If you really want to make money, found an agentic AI company.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-25

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt declares the current moment the "agentic period in AI" and advises entrepreneurs that founding an agentic AI company is the best path to making money.

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Topics: agentic-aiai-industryai-business-strategy

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  • Eric Schmidt believes founding an agentic AI company is the most financially promising move in the current AI landscape.
  • Schmidt characterizes the present as the "agentic period in AI," in which building agents is the dominant paradigm.
  • Schmidt predicts that all AI agents will ultimately compete with each other as adoption becomes universal.

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If you really want to make money, found an agentic AI company.
This is the agentic period in AI. Everyone's going to build agents. The agents are all going to compete.