Dan Martell
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Really?
Jack Dorsey, founder of Square and Twitter, he has a company called Block, just laid off 40% of their whole company.
4,000 people out of 10,000 and his stock went up 25%.
Not fair.
And he says because of AI.
So it's happening.
I actually think...
That as a leader, if I had to do that, it's because I didn't see and upskill everybody.
So I could, and all I would do, this is what I would do, is I'd use my platform.
So I have a product called Apex, which is an agent platform for execution.
I don't want to scare people, but AI is way more than just chat.
We've now gone to autonomous AI agents that can do functions.
I would use that to do all the functions my team, those hundred people do.
Because I consider myself a fairly decent leader, what I decided to do a while ago was shut down my company for two whole days and retrain my whole team.
No meetings, no structure, no nothing.
and we did an old fashioned AI hackathon.
And I taught every one of them how to code.
Cloud code is what I taught them.
Finance, HR, marketing, didn't matter what level interns to the CEOs of my companies, everybody's gonna learn to code.
Now, Lewis, I know you hear this and you go, but I don't know anything about code.