AI Copilots Are a Dead End. Here's What Actually Works | Kavak CEO

a16z Deep Dives · 2026-03-05 · 71 分鐘
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Kavak CEO Carlos García Ottati says AI agents now handle 90–95% of customer interactions after a year of flat growth.
Kavak CEO Carlos García Ottati explains how the used-car marketplace grew across Latin America and the Middle East by building more than an online storefront: it created its own reconditioning, financing, logistics, and e-commerce infrastructure. After being defrauded while buying and selling cars in Mexico, García saw a market where 90% of transactions were informal and 40% ended in some form of fraud; in Mexico, only 5% of used-car purchases were financed. Kavak stayed in Mexico City for four to five years before expanding, targeting cities with large markets, serious fraud and financing gaps, and car prices above $10,000. García says the company’s early investment in connected data systems prepared it to deploy AI agents after employee copilot tools failed to gain adoption. The transition took a year of flat growth, but agents now sit in the middle of 90–95% of customer interactions. He also describes firing himself each year to assess whether he is still the right CEO, and urges founders to solve problems people truly need addressed, improve the user experience by 1% each week, and reassess decisions with fresh data.
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- 0:00Kavak's scale: 10,000 monthly transactions, 3,500 people, and operations across Latin America and the Middle East
- 2:40How 14 school changes across Venezuela and the United States taught Carlos to handle upheaval
- 4:58From a reverse-only car in a remote village to his father’s 2002 prosecution in Venezuela
- 9:16From Venezuela’s public schools to Oxford and Amazon, Carlos learned to build win-win relationships
- 11:52After being defrauded while selling his car in Mexico, Carlos began Kavak’s pricing solution
- 13:05Kavak’s opportunity: a 90% informal market, widespread fraud, and only 5% used-car financing in Mexico
- 17:34Kavak’s four supporting businesses: e-commerce, reconditioning, financing, and logistics
- 24:11Kavak’s city strategy: Mexico City first, then markets with cars above $10,000
- 28:04Carlos’s 2017 robot-pipeline memo: building shared ontology for Kavak’s edge cases
- 31:13Why Kavak built data systems for 60,000 car SKUs, warranty failures, and underwriting
- 35:31Kavak replaced unused copilots with human-agent teams for customer edge cases
- 40:53Kavak went flat in 2023, then scaled AI agents to 90–95% of user interactions
- 45:38After a 99.9% market collapse, Kavak aimed to grow leaner and serve first-time car buyers
- 50:31Carlos urges Latin American founders to solve essential problems and remove user friction
- 55:09Kavak’s clean-car mission, fintech expansion, and Carlos’s 24-hour decision loop
- 59:38Carlos García Ottati: pressure is earned, and opportunity should be acknowledged daily
- 1:00:38Why Carlos García Ottati fires himself: reassessing the CEO role and adapting to Kavak’s next phase
- 1:05:52Carlos’s first business at 12: scaling lawn care into subscriptions and funding later ventures
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