A 3-person startup just used AI to ship a product that took your team of 50 engineers two years to build. It launched last Tuesday. Walk into the office on Monday morning - what do you do?
You don't panic about the three-person startup — you panic that it took your team two years to build something that could've been shipped in months, which means you're not managing the fortress, you're managing the bureaucracy.
Listen to me carefully. That startup didn't beat you because of AI. They beat you because they don't have 47 people whose job is to say no to the 3 people trying to build things. March 2008, Bear Stearns is collapsing. The Fed calls me on ...