Plummer: Massive corporate headcounts will become a liability against AI-powered teams
Ben Plummer · How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer · Sep 5, 2024 · at 27:40
Ben Plummer, CEO of Invisible Technologies, discusses Sam Altman's 'one-person unicorn' concept and how AI agents will reshape company scale.
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“I do think directionally, this is very right that these technologies and companies like invisible will enable you to build really powerful global companies that are able to compete with others that have You know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of employees very, very quickly to be more agile, to be more nimble and to operate with just a very high density core set of talent that sort of overseeing and steering the organization, but is enabled by hundreds of thousands of AI agents that are basically doing the work and they can do so very quickly. And you've sort of broken the paradigm that sort of bigger companies have more employees and they're larger in size. I think effectively that will become a liability, that it sort of makes you less agile, makes you less able to adapt to changing circumstances than these AI technologies will.”
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