Puri: Central AI will manage corporate strategy while humans become junior assistants
Shaan Puri · 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why · Apr 22, 2026 · at 17:45
Shaan Puri discusses corporate restructuring at tech companies like Block and explains how artificial intelligence will invert the traditional hierarchy of human managers and software tools.
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“The super intelligence is going to be the boss. You're going to be the junior thing. And so and that's what he's, that's what these guys are talking about, Brian Halligan and Jack Dorsey, which is that actually there'll be like a central AI that's making the key decisions, allocating resources, Figuring out strategy, coming up with the core campaigns about what you're going to do, the products, the roadmap, the build, you know, the building of it, and that your job as humans will be to feed context, I mean, feed information to make the brain smarter.”
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