Jason M. Lemkin warns startups they must deploy disruptive AI agents by Halloween 2025. After that deadline, companies without working AI in production won't be able to compete and may need to replace most of their teams.
There's no excuse in 2025.
The Agentic Enterprise, which is kind of the vision that that Salesforce was is talking about at this conference. How long does a company have, do you think, to get on board the train before they just miss the train?
Until Halloween. Which is like. Yeah, because you're going to get out competed if you're a startup, right.
You're already behind like two weeks.
I'll tell you, you know, maybe it's mean every VC I know, every investor I know where the startup hasn't made the jump yet, they've given up now, they've lost hope. But if you didn't pay attention to how everything changed at least at the start of 2025 and didn't have a plan, there's no excuse. But my point is everyone that sees other companies know, okay, we'll give you 2023 if you didn't figure it out, totally cool. There's no excuse in 2025. So Halloween, you've had 10 months. You don't have anything in production that is disruptive. You're not working at an acceptable speed. In the age of AI, you have already lost. You may, it may not be over, but you got to get rid of most of your team at a minimum and start over. You have to reboot your entire. If you're not in market with a disruptive AI agent as a startup on Halloween, you need a brand new team. A brand new team, maybe even 80% of them got to go. You give them a nice Thanksgiving bonus and a turkey and tell them they got to go because you've had 10 months.
