THE BIG WORD: SURVIVING THE AI DISRUPTION CYCLE WITH JOSHUA GOULD

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Joshua Gould discusses transforming a traditional service business into a tech giant amidst the AI disruption cycle.

How do you take a traditional service business and turn it into a $100 million tech titan? Joshua Gould did exactly that, and he warns that the current generative AI boom is a massive disruption cycle mirroring the 1990s dot-com bust. If your company isn't rebuilding its tech stack right now, you are already behind. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN 🚀 Surviving the AI Disruption: Discover why the current AI revolution is history repeating itself, and how to spot real AI solutions versus empty promises. 💡 The Capital Moat Strategy: Learn why integrating AI requires massive capital expenditure to rebuild legacy tech stacks, and why relying on internal profits is a losing game. 🧠 Tough Love Leadership: Find out why "protecting" your team from AI is actually destroying their future careers, and how to upskill them on the job instead. QUICK TIMESTAMPS > 04:32 - Building the "Uber for Language" with 15,000 linguists > 22:42 - The real reason managers and companies are terrified to adopt AI > 37:55 - Why scaling AI requires serious capital and a modernized tech stack ONE BIG THING Loved this masterclass on tech leadership and AI? Hit the SUBSCRIBE button to support the Venture Step Podcast…

People in this episode

Host: Dalton Anderson

Guest: Joshua Gould

Topics covered

• AI disruption
• tech leadership
• capital expenditure
• legacy tech stacks
• upskilling

Keywords

• AI revolution
• tech titan
• capital moat strategy
• tough love leadership
• generative AI

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Organizations: WordSync

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