The AI hiring wave is over.<\/p>\n
Companies hired AI teams in 2024-2025 like they were collecting Pokemon cards.<\/p>\n
Head of AI. VP of AI Strategy. Chief AI Officer.<\/p>\n
Most didn’t know what these people would actually do.<\/p>\n
I watched 12 portfolio companies make this mistake. They hired AI expertise before defining AI problems.<\/p>\n
Behind closed doors, these expensive hires spent months in meetings. Talking about “AI transformation roadmaps” and “machine learning pipelines.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the sales team was still manually qualifying leads.<\/p>\n
Customer service was drowning in tickets.<\/p>\n
Operations was burning cash on repetitive tasks.<\/p>\n
The real AI opportunity was sitting right there. Unglamorous. Unnoticed.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I learned from the companies that got it right:<\/p>\n
They didn’t hire AI people first.<\/p>\n
They identified their most painful manual processes first.<\/p>\n
Then they found people who could automate those specific problems.<\/p>\n
The best AI hires weren’t the ones with fancy titles.<\/p>\n
They were the ones who saved the company 40 hours a week in the first month.<\/p>\n
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