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Joined November 2020
I once presented a billionaire some of the highest-ROI projects I'd ever found. Some north of 1,000% IRR. I have never forgotten his response.
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Ideally you want the people closest to the problem/project designing and deploying AI. Deep understanding of the business and processes + general education/awareness of what AI can do That combo is very potent. What doesn’t work is implementing AI from on high. This is why you see PE folks and others who are multiple degrees away from the AI solution very skeptical of ROI. They see spend, but no return. It’s possible that’s because the solutions are top down. Someone at the top is saying “we need to use AI.” Ideally folks doing the work identify AI solutions, but that’s not always going to happen. So, it’s important to educate the org on what AI can do and truly partner with (listen+incentivize) the front line to implement. Finally, we are still so early. You should be experimenting. Not every dollar is going to have an immediate positive ROI. That is ok, within limits. But long term, what is the ROI on having an entire organization that moves fast and leverages AI? Incalculable.
Our company is seeing unbelievable productivity gains, with more on the horizon. I honestly can’t understand how others are not. It started with editing, spreadsheets, and modeling. It spread to research. Then it spread to internal reporting. And now we are exploring deploying bots en masse. If you aren’t seeing productivity gains, you are falling behind.
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Ideally you want the people closest to the problem/project designing and deploying AI. Deep understanding of the business and processes + general education/awareness of what AI can do That combo is very potent. What doesn’t work is implementing AI from on high. This is why you see PE folks and others who are multiple degrees away from the AI solution very skeptical of ROI. They see spend, but no return. It’s possible that’s because the solutions are top down. Someone at the top is saying “we need to use AI.” Ideally folks doing the work identify AI solutions, but that’s not always going to happen. So, it’s important to educate the org on what AI can do and truly partner with (listen+incentivize) the front line to implement. Finally, we are still so early. You should be experimenting. Not every dollar is going to have an immediate positive ROI. That is ok, within limits. But long term, what is the ROI on having an entire organization that moves fast and leverages AI? Incalculable.
Our company is seeing unbelievable productivity gains, with more on the horizon. I honestly can’t understand how others are not. It started with editing, spreadsheets, and modeling. It spread to research. Then it spread to internal reporting. And now we are exploring deploying bots en masse. If you aren’t seeing productivity gains, you are falling behind.
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Expect to start seeing ROAI as a metric: return on AI spend.
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