Good Stuff 52 - AI First Organisations

Good Stuff 52 - AI First Organisations

From The Good Stuff by Other Stuff

April 8, 2026 · 1h 9m · Episode 52

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI on organizational structures and how companies can evolve beyond human-centric designs.

Happy birthday to The Good Stuff one year in. Pete and Andy dig into what happens when organisations stop being sized for humans. Jack Dorsey's Block restructuring provides the jumping-off point: if hierarchies exist because humans can only manage so much information flow, what happens when that constraint disappears? The haul pack analogy returns - those mining trucks are that size because of humans, not physics. Remove the driver and the optimal size changes. Same with companies. The GLP-1 brothers with $500M+ revenue and two employees aren't an anomaly—they're the template. Support functions collapse, value streams remain, and "scopes" replace teams as the organisational primitive. **Key Moments:** - [00:07] "We just realised it's been a year" - [03:49] "AI becomes the centre of the organisation. Individuals move to the edge." - [05:55] GLP-1 brothers: two guys, OpenClaw, projecting $1.4B revenue - [06:45] Haul pack analogy: sized for humans, not physics - [08:36] "Do I want a thousand individual agents? One agent that knows everything? A command agent? They all have their downsides." - [16:22] "I'm aware that is not the standard…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pete, Andy

Topics covered

  • AI in organizations
  • business restructuring
  • information flow
  • organizational design
  • automation
  • entrepreneurship

Keywords

  • AI
  • organizations
  • Jack Dorsey
  • Block
  • GLP-1
  • automation
  • business
  • entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Block, OpenClaw, GLP-1

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