Next Legacy Partners Bridge Summit — Eric interviews Carl Eschenbach on AI, human agency, and the deployment race

Next Legacy Partners (the Sequoia-affiliated fund founded by Ken Chenault and Ken Frazier) hosts its Bridge Summit for institutional LPs. Eric interviews Carl Eschenbach — Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital, CEO of Workday, and one of the industry's longest-tenured operator-investors — on why the real AI race is human adoption, and why capability doesn't deploy itself.

“Carl Eschenbach believes every technology sets a new bar for productivity, but people decide how high that bar goes. AI is already very capable. Capability doesn't deploy itself, and it doesn't build the process around it. The magic still runs through the people on the other side of the keyboard.” — Ben Choi (Next Legacy Partners) on LinkedIn