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Amy Wu

Partner, Menlo Ventures

Search every verified Amy Wu interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Amy Wu Martin, a partner at Menlo Ventures, appeared on The Information's TITV show on September 17, 2026, to discuss new data her firm collected on consumer AI adoption. She said that while about two-thirds of Americans use AI, roughly one-third remain "deeply entrenched" holdouts who are distrustful, worry about privacy, or prefer human interaction, a figure that has not moved much in the past year. She noted that among AI users, the share paying for the technology has risen from about 3% last year to roughly half now, describing this as a "remarkable" change in the market. Wu Martin also commented on the broader adoption trend, stating that consumer AI use has historically lagged enterprise adoption. She said consumers will not use products unless they save time, money, or improve their lives "by probably like order of magnitude," and that enterprise executives are more willing to experiment even without guaranteed returns. Her remarks were part of a segment on the show that also covered the Federal Reserve's rate hike and The Information's list of the 50 most influential people in tech.

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“We've been waiting for a tipping point in consumer AI use for a while. It, you know, consumer adoption has historically always lagged enterprise, right? Enterprise executives they're constantly experimenting, it doesn't have to necessarily work, although right now I think they're looking very hard at ROI. Consumers won't use anything that they're not getting, you know, they're not saving time, money, or making their ”

“I think the numbers show that, you know, obviously people are using AI, but people who are not using AI aren't using it. You know, there's like a very deeply entrenched space of holdouts. You know, people who are deeply distrustful. They worry about their privacy. They quite frankly prefer to talk to a human. It's about a third of Americans right now. And that has not moved very much in the last year. But if you thin”

“We wrote the biggest check in Menlo's history — $500 million in Anthropic — and at this point it will cost over a billion dollars to do a training run if you're trying to compete in the generalist LLM space.”

“What's top of mind for Menlo right now is the fact that we actually kind of miss the codegen space like the AI codegen space.”

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