David Pierce

Yeah. And not only are the AI companies betting on it, like how many CEOs do you think you've had on this show this year who have not mentioned AI once? I honestly, I would be shocked if it's more than one who isn't out here talking about AI.

Because again, A, you like have to have a strategy or everybody thinks you're an old fusty company that nobody cares about anymore and your board fires you and that's a whole thing. Yeah. But also, again, the promise is so huge, right? The idea that AI can remove a lot of the busy work that we have to do.

Because again, A, you like have to have a strategy or everybody thinks you're an old fusty company that nobody cares about anymore and your board fires you and that's a whole thing. Yeah. But also, again, the promise is so huge, right? The idea that AI can remove a lot of the busy work that we have to do.

Because again, A, you like have to have a strategy or everybody thinks you're an old fusty company that nobody cares about anymore and your board fires you and that's a whole thing. Yeah. But also, again, the promise is so huge, right? The idea that AI can remove a lot of the busy work that we have to do.

If you turn making a deck out of an Excel spreadsheet into just a command to an AI, like, that's a measurable productivity increase in the world. And the same thing with the finding of the information and even some of the generative stuff that's starting to happen, like... If that stuff works, and that is a bit, like I cannot emphasize the if enough there.

If you turn making a deck out of an Excel spreadsheet into just a command to an AI, like, that's a measurable productivity increase in the world. And the same thing with the finding of the information and even some of the generative stuff that's starting to happen, like... If that stuff works, and that is a bit, like I cannot emphasize the if enough there.

If you turn making a deck out of an Excel spreadsheet into just a command to an AI, like, that's a measurable productivity increase in the world. And the same thing with the finding of the information and even some of the generative stuff that's starting to happen, like... If that stuff works, and that is a bit, like I cannot emphasize the if enough there.

It's not when, it's if in a very real way. But if that stuff all works, it sincerely changes the way we do just about everything. And it means you and I, we probably won't go to the beach more often, but we get to spend more of our time doing things that are like interesting and rewarding and valuable rather than busy work. Like I spend a lot of my time doing busy work.

It's not when, it's if in a very real way. But if that stuff all works, it sincerely changes the way we do just about everything. And it means you and I, we probably won't go to the beach more often, but we get to spend more of our time doing things that are like interesting and rewarding and valuable rather than busy work. Like I spend a lot of my time doing busy work.

It's not when, it's if in a very real way. But if that stuff all works, it sincerely changes the way we do just about everything. And it means you and I, we probably won't go to the beach more often, but we get to spend more of our time doing things that are like interesting and rewarding and valuable rather than busy work. Like I spend a lot of my time doing busy work.

You don't because you just have people put printouts on your desk for you to circle things on. But like life is busy work. And if we can get rid of that, there are all kinds of really complicated societal implications to that because frankly, a lot of people's job is busy work and a lot of people do busy work for a living.

You don't because you just have people put printouts on your desk for you to circle things on. But like life is busy work. And if we can get rid of that, there are all kinds of really complicated societal implications to that because frankly, a lot of people's job is busy work and a lot of people do busy work for a living.

You don't because you just have people put printouts on your desk for you to circle things on. But like life is busy work. And if we can get rid of that, there are all kinds of really complicated societal implications to that because frankly, a lot of people's job is busy work and a lot of people do busy work for a living.

But the question of what could this mean if it hits, if it works, it's just too big for anybody to not try.

But the question of what could this mean if it hits, if it works, it's just too big for anybody to not try.

But the question of what could this mean if it hits, if it works, it's just too big for anybody to not try.

Yeah. The alternative is this is going to make you more productive so you can fire half your staff. And like a lot of these companies don't want to say that even though that is both what they're buying and what they're selling is I can fire a bunch of people and replace them with this software.

Yeah. The alternative is this is going to make you more productive so you can fire half your staff. And like a lot of these companies don't want to say that even though that is both what they're buying and what they're selling is I can fire a bunch of people and replace them with this software.

Yeah. The alternative is this is going to make you more productive so you can fire half your staff. And like a lot of these companies don't want to say that even though that is both what they're buying and what they're selling is I can fire a bunch of people and replace them with this software.

I think in the near term, the actual real thing that's going to happen is it's just going to automate away a bunch of work, right? Like, I think what we're looking at is something much closer to the advent of computers when all of a sudden, instead of sitting at my desk writing out spreadsheets by hand, I could just sit there and