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D 5 · C 4 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q conversation a week or so ago about what you're seeing on the ground with small businesses in an AI workplace setting. The conversation is always, are they going to get out competed? Are they going to get displaced? What's going to happen to American jobs and to the small business? But what are you seeing on the ground and how does the SBA kind of associate with the transition underway?
A Yeah, Dave, first of all, great to be here. Look, a small business is big business in America, but Small business is big business for AI, and I have been walking hundreds of factory floors for the last six months. Most manufacturers in America are small businesses, and without AI, we would not be winning back these industries, and I will just tell you a case in point. I actually bought a slide to show you workforce development in action, modern workforce. We call it the new color boom. I don't know if they can put it up. But it's a factory in Seymour, Indiana. It's a bike factory. We had lost the bike industry over the last 30 years, thousands of jobs, 98% imports. We're now, for the first time in this country, building bikes in America because of AI, advanced manufacturing techniques. Imagine we replicate this industry after industry, and these are small businesses. This is a sixty-person factory in Seymour, Indiana, where they have no jobs. So it's a, AI is a job creation machine for reshoring, onshoring, and advanced manufacturing.
AI assessment note: “AI is a job creation machine for reshoring, onshoring, and advanced manufacturing.”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q Yes, I don't do any DI, but jokingly, uh, what's the criteria? Like when somebody comes and says, I want to, you know, raise a 100,000 and go to their local bank, how do they get picked?
A Yeah, we have strict underwriting guidelines, and we've stripped out the DEI that the last administration had put in. They had a green lender initiative to preference where money went under the Green New Deal. I mean, ah, we've gone back to saying, if you qualify for these loans, have at it. Ah, we're not gonna pick winners and losers. We want everyone to compete on a level playing, playing field and have access to that capital. But what had happened in the last administration, they had lowered the underwriting guardrails, As a result, the loan loss portfolio, the, on the portfolio went way up, four hundred million dollars. We've reversed that, strengthened the underwriting standards to make sure that the money goes to small businesses who are building these factories to onshore drones and pharmaceuticals and defense and aerospace.
AI assessment note: “we have strict underwriting guidelines”
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D 2 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.00
Q One of the things that Um, helps burnish entrepreneurship is imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You must have so many successes But they're not always well marketed or known, which would then pull other people to say, well, if they could do it, I could do it. How do you think about that in a world of social media and all of this?
A You've picked up on one of my key problems. I run an agency that starts with the word small. Small does not mean insignificant. In fact, small business is significant, and President Trump and I talk about that all the time. He loves small business. He knows the innovation starts there. The manufacturing is small business. So we are working on a massive resetting of what the SBA does, but more importantly, what small business means to America. And I think people are waking up that Main Street is going mainstream, and we have to continue to push the understanding that if we don't protect our small businesses, our innovation pipeline, our job creation engine is going to shut down.
AI assessment note: “You've picked up on one of my key problems. I run an agency”
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D 2 · C 3 · P 4 · Cm 3 2.95
Q And, um, I guess, what is needed for workforce training and transition?
A Yeah, technology's gonna be a big part of it. So when you think about, go back to 1940, our workforce size was fifty-six million. And people say, well, as technology advances, our workforce gets competed away. Today our workforce is a hundred and seventy million, and compute power has been asymptotic. So, essentially, 85% of the jobs that exist today Have been driven by advances in technology, and only 40% of the jobs that we had back in 19 forties still exist today. So, we are relying on innovation as a job creation engine. It's just that people have a fear of the unknown, and they're saying, I, I can't envision what it is. Well, I, I can't envision what my life would have been like when I started a small business if I could have had Figma or Canva instead of PowerPoint. Oh my gosh. Uh, so, Just these are, ah, we're gonna create millions of solopreneurs who are gonna have massive software companies or manufacturing companies thanks to AI.
AI assessment note: “Yeah, technology's gonna be a big part of it.”
