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Why Fast Learning Is the Only Protection Against AI Disruption | Jody Glidden - Tech Entrepreneur & CEO · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  In this lessons episode, explore how AI and automation are reshaping the job market and forcing a
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  complete rethink of how we build careers. Learn why adaptability and lifelong learning are now
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  essential survival tools. Learn how logic rather than specific skills will define success in an AI
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  driven world and learn why the future may belong to companies of one rather than massive corporate
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  teams. So what are how are people going to learn or upskill if you know technology is completely
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  replacing them like I think there's going to hit people coming out of college and university
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  the hardest immediately because I don't know where they're going to get jobs anymore. No I think
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  that you know I have a daughter now that's that's 16 years old and I think the most important thing
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  is to be agile. You have to expect that the the job market that you're going to enter is not
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  foreseeable right now and and so one of the the ways that I've always adapted anyway and
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  is is by being open to learning and just constantly whatever that new thing is there's always
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  going to be a new thing and whatever that new thing is if you're on top of it not trying to
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  outsource it to people you know I'm all weekend all evening I'm like constantly
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  watching videos and studying and things like that reading books like that's going to be a more
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  important skill than ever because if we're expecting to okay we're going to go do high school
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  we're going to go do college and then we're done learning yeah you're done yeah and I think that
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  this is something that people first realized during COVID like if they haven't upskilled and they got
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  laid off during COVID then they tried to get back into the job market and they were just doing
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  the same job for the past you know 20 years and they have an upskilled then there was a lot of friction
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  with them getting a new job now AI is making it even more difficult for those people I think that
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  everybody has to start acting like an entrepreneur that's really that's going to be a trend yeah
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  like I can see now already that the company sizes are shrinking dramatically right you're seeing
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  at the big companies like meta and Google and all these companies are shrinking headcount and
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  and still achieving the same and and exceeding revenue too and and I think there was a thing about
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  meta just shrunk headcount exceeded revenue numbers and people were giving them a hard time
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  like why would you lay people off I'm like well will those people do like what yeah I know
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  like do at meta or Google when there's exactly people are more productive and you have to think
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  the company's mandate is to grow the company grow the revenue decrease expense it's their job
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  it's their job so as much as it you know from um from uh oh it's nice if the company just
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  employs people to employ people at the end of the day no companies ever going to act that way
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  so you have to understand how companies act and then you're conduct yourself accordingly that's
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  the world we live yeah and that's the world you know our children are going to move into and everything
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  so you know I think I've seen it also at the smaller scale right because I've done a lot of
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  companies from zero to you know they call it zero to one but these companies from zero to a hundred
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  or several hundred people are now I think you can still you can build those same kind of companies
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  with fewer heads yeah and and so if you can you have to because the investors will only give you
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  that much money so I mean you've built you've built several companies if you look at if you look
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  at how you build in 2025 versus how you used to build what are some of the biggest differences like
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  when you first started out what was what was like the first company because I would have been how many
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  years ago I don't want it I don't want to date you but it was it was a couple of years ago right
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  early 90s yeah so when you first started that company what was notably different in how you had to
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  think through getting something from zero to one getting it off the ground raising money hiring
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  I'm just I want to pay the picture for how much things have changed and how quickly things have
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  changed yeah you know I so my first one was like in the early 90s and then the late 90s and and
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  back then I think it was it was it kind of like what we were very cash constrained back then
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  and then the two in the early 2000s all of a sudden cash was free and now it's starting to get
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  more cash constrained again because people investors know that you can do it on less cash
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  so back then I was doing things like profitably for example you know because that was
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  the idea yeah exactly yeah but I think now we're moving into we're you know we're still doing
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  the same the same kind of thing where we're doing a cash constrained but it's incredible what
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  we're able to get done in a short period of time in in postalize my new company from quarter to
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  quarter when I go back and show customers or prospects the the feature list that we've accomplished
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  with such a small team it's like blowing people away so when you say blown away what what is so
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  impressive what is it doing because not everybody like not everybody goes not everybody's in the
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  weeds on this all we everyone hears about like no code low code right but that's all that's
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  almost people ever hear about it they don't actually know what that means and I don't even think
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  that that is even AI it really it's not yeah so that's those things like bubble and things like
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  that flutter but but this is even beyond that I'm not sure that those are even I think those are
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  becoming obsolete now because now you can actually make actual you know Java code Python code you know
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  no JS code yeah having like not a lot of knowledge I saw a guy on a podcast he was one of the
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  business guys at Uber and he created like a very very successful app just him it's generation he
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  was not a technical guy he was like a business development guy yeah he has no staff it's just him
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  and he taught himself you know what nowadays they call vibe coding yeah yeah and he built it and
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  is that just as simple as going into chat GPT and saying literally I need to build this app can you
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  code it for me and then taking that code and then hosting it somewhere well or is there most of the
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  time that's going to get it wrong yeah I get it but if I look at what was happening say a year and a
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  half ago the code that it was producing versus the code that it produces today there's very few
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  errors versus back then it was you know a lot of errors so that's just continues to get better
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  and better on top of that you have you you have to have knowledge of like the more knowledge you
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  have of coding the the better you're going to be at it because if it's like 90% of the way there
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  then you can take a look at it and that's still tons of time saved exactly yeah that's what a lot
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  of the developers are talking about is that it gets them 90% of the way there yeah although now with
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  products like cursor and some of the newer models like O3 I'd say you can get it closer to like 95 96
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  percent there in the past you said that intro high was going to be your last company before AI came
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  along so I mean I'm laughing because I sit down with so many entrepreneurs and whenever they say
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  they're done it's always a lie yeah so what was it about what was it about I mean I think I know
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  the answer but I want to hear it from you like what was it about generative AI that was so exciting
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  for you I know that it's efficient I know that it can do incredible things I know that it's the
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  future but you don't have to work again so why do you want to build in generative AI and go
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  from zero to one all over again like every time it's like an extra great hair right and it's it's
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  not less painful yeah I know if the coding may be easier and all this stuff but but it is for
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  everybody else in the world too yes I'm exactly now exactly yeah no I would say that yes I was
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  going to be done and but I think now what got me are really a couple of things I'm really worried
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  about our future generations a little bit so I think that there might only be you know maybe
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  three to ten more years left to earn before the middle class could be completely wiped out
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  there because there might be so many blue collar jobs and white collar jobs that are replaced white
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  collar with the AI that we know now and blue collar with the robotics and everything that's coming
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  maybe five years from now that I feel like maybe the maybe I need to earn more for yeah help with
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  my future generations my daughter and you know all of that I can ask chat GPT for anything what do I
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  actually have to know I know I know how to interpret the output of a generative chat tool so what do
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  I actually have to know just enough to interpret it and prompt it or well I think really with all
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  of those whether it's you know physics or chemistry or math or coding well they out what threads
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  through them all is logic you know and so the better we all get at logic then I that's that's
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  an adaptable skill that you'll be able to drop yourself into any environment learn up you know
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  some domain and make yourself useful I think like building a company is also a process of logic
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  you have to figure out what what should the product be or the service be you're figuring out
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  you know what's the market sizing what's the competition like what how do you pick a good idea you
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  have to learn all about how to pick yeah then you have to figure out well how do I persuade an
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  investor and you learn all about that but these are all logic problems right and and so if you don't
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  get the logic skills built up in your early years you're probably going to struggle later on when
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  probably like you said the main job will be building a company it might be a company of one it could
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  be a company of one and I mean one of my favorite charts is actually looking at how many people it
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  takes to make a million dollars in annual revenue and if you look at the graph over you know a period
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  of times it's a 1940s or 50s it used to say pretend it was like 50 people and now to make a million
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  dollar you know ARR annual recurring revenue or annual revenue company it's one person yeah the guy
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  that was so and not even just million it could be several million with a chrome extension or what
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  they're they're they're predicting I think the same Altman might have said this but a lot of people
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  have that they think that they're in the next several years there's going to be somebody that will
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  make a billion dollar company with one person thanks for tuning in if you found this valuable don't
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