The AI Adoption Pattern Tech Leaders Are Missing in Their Teams
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Avetis Antaplyan discusses AI adoption and its implications with AI entrepreneur Ariel Jalali.
For more thoughts, clips, and updates, follow Avetis Antaplyan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avetisantaplyan In this episode of The Tech Leader's Playbook, Avetis Antaplyan sits down with Ariel Jalali, an AI entrepreneur, advisor, operator, longtime CTO, and founder of Paragon Tech. Ariel has been building in AI and machine learning since 2014, previously taught part-time at UCLA, and now helps mid-market companies drive capital efficiency and value creation through practical, measurable AI implementation. Together, Avetis and Ariel unpack why this AI wave feels fundamentally different from previous technology shifts like the internet, cloud, mobile, ERP, and CRM. Ariel explains why the speed of change is compressing decades of transformation into years, why curiosity may matter more than age when adopting AI, and why the future of work may be better understood as the future of earning, ownership, purpose, and belonging. The conversation moves from tactical to philosophical, covering AI adoption inside private equity-backed and mid-market companies, the rising importance of CFOs and COOs, the difference between efficiency AI and…
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