About this episode

The episode discusses the decline of specialist executives in the age of AI with Mahesh Guruswamy, COO of Kajabi.

We were told to specialize endlessly…now, AI is here. Today, we're talking to Mahesh Guruswamy, COO of Kajabi. We discuss why the specialist executive is becoming extinct as tech gets commoditized, how "AI fatigue" is really grief over eroding craft rather than exhaustion, and why the biggest threat to the AI boom might be economics, not technology. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!  To learn more about Mahesh's course, check it out here.

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Host: Modern CTO

Guest: Mahesh Guruswamy

Topics covered

• specialization
• AI
• executive roles
• technology commoditization
• economics

Keywords

• specialist executive
• AI fatigue
• technology
• economics
• craft

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Organizations: Kajabi

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