Worldwide Ty explores how AI can help small family-run businesses like corner stores and ice cream stands scale up. He argues that mom-and-pop shops historically lacked the foundations for expansion, acquisitions, and clean exits, and suggests AI could change that.
What inspired AI in the hood, that was the candy lady, ice cream man, the corner store, like the automobile, whatever those different things were that quite never scaled, right? They just stayed the same for a very long time. They never multiplied, they never expanded. And when this part of my life, and I'm doing a lot of, you know, acquisition knowledge and thinking about exit strategies and all of the different aspects of it, due diligence, and I'm like, wow, these companies never. They never had proper foundations to either sell or to expand or to just exit in a clean way. And it also, or it could have been where that was the family business, right?
