Lindsay Ellis
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13 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Lindsay Ellis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One executive I talked to compared the efficiencies gained with AI to taking a GLP-1 weight loss drug.
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You can do a lot more with a smaller staff.
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If we look at how they structure operations, how they use this technology, even kind of what they expect out of their staff, it can offer just really interesting clues for what work is going to look like for the rest of us as this technology gains a firmer hold in the workplace.
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These founders told me that it really is sort of woven through every part of the business, even thinking about how individuals see their roles.
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So you wouldn't necessarily just have a manager anymore overseeing a team or a team of teams, as we see in some corporations.
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That manager would need to be contributing individually, overseeing agents who are doing the work, maybe having a direct report.
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But it really is what they call a player coach model so that everybody is getting their hands dirty and there are fewer layers between the bottom rung of the corporate ladder and then the top executive ranks.
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there's an acknowledgement that it could be smaller.
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When I talked to Rem Koning, who's the entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School, and asked him, like, is this going to mean an uptick in unemployment?
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He wasn't so sure and said that, yes, these AI native startups have smaller headcounts, but the ease of this technology may make it easier to form businesses.
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And so he
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the uptick in business creation might offset that.
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But I do think he would agree with that, that smaller teams are likely.
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