Excerpt from a May 29, 2025 YouTube video 'How to Survive the AI Goldrush' (Matt Wolfe). Speakers discuss that many companies will go out of business if they fail to reinvent themselves amid AI-driven efficiency gains; some companies could grow to multi-trillion-dollar scale. The clip recommends adopting AI tools that integrate with existing systems to make teams happier and enable experimentation. A Henry Ford analogy is used to illustrate building transformative solutions rather than incremental improvements.
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A lot of companies are going out of business. Then we're going to see lots of like multi trillion dollar companies and people are going to be shocked. They thought trillion was a big deal. It's going to seem like a small number in the future. And we're going to see a lot of companies that you thought were going to be around that are no longer going to be around. And it's because they didn't reinvent themselves. And if I was a big company, I would be looking at something like this and thinking like this is something I can actually get my teams to use. It fits into our existing systems and it allows us to make our teams happier to actually do work they want to do and to try new things because they need to be trying new things right now.
It is a little bit scary to think about. There are a lot of companies that they don't reinvent themselves. There are certain things that become obsolete. But I think on a micro scale it's a little alarming or a little concerning. But I think on a macro scale it's happening because things are becoming more efficient. Which I think is actually a great story. Right. Something that we talk about a lot is, you know, even when we build factories, the Henry Ford quote, which is if you ask people what they want, they would say faster horses. And sometimes you need to look past what people are asking for and build that, build that automobile.
