Jack Swift, former Army Ranger and finance executive, built a career from childhood hunger into roles at Janus and multiple startups. He made millions but found wealth hollow without health or purpose. He warns that AI could displace hundreds of millions of jobs by 2030, requiring a fundamental shift in how we think about success.
I remember a time being in the grocery store with my mom. It was a Piggly Wiggly in Hope, Arkansas, and I wanted apple juice. And my mom's like, "No, we can't afford apple juice." Take me back to that moment. I am clear that I don't want to ever be in a situation where I can't get access to food and preferably food that I want.
Jack Swift is a former Army Ranger, West Point graduate, and accomplished entrepreneur. He co-founded Pacific Current Group, led Typhon, an AI-driven fintech company valued at $842 million, and served as president of Crestone Capital, a $2.7 billion multifamily office.
So I ended up being the youngest managing director in Janus's history and running the institutional sales team. I'm riding pretty high at that point because I'm making a lot of money. You know, a lot of the work that I'm doing with my team is responsible for the earnings call every quarter. I'm learning what it's like to be a corporate executive, and I'm in a publicly traded company. How did that drive you to become successful? But what is success, right? What is success? You have money and you're, you know, your health is crap. Are you successful? I don't think so. So, so the awakening for me came when I really started to learn to— AI could be considered an emergent consciousness. Massive opportunity, but also deeply destabilizing. How do you think about that? What's going to unfold is dramatically, amazingly impactful for their individual lives. And then at scale, what it looks like is we hear a lot of this. We hear like forecast by, you know, 2030, there'll be 400 million less jobs because of AI. Maybe. But will there be 600 million new jobs created? Maybe. It's going to require a different way of
