Then I fired 74 of them. Your audience leaves knowing exactly which three to hire first, and what to do the day one of them goes rogue.
Spoke at Ai4 2026, Las Vegas
73K+ subscribers in 5 months
Not a slide about the future. The actual staff of 150 that runs his inbox, money, outreach, research and home, with the honest count of what broke, what he hated, and what worked too well.
2.9 million people have watched him explain AI in plain English. He does the same thing on stage: no jargon, no hype, and a framework anyone can start tonight.
A career technology leader, fluent in Python, author of The Smartest Move, and a Purdue doctoral researcher. He knows the difference between a demo and a system you can trust with your name.
You are not short on time. You are short on AI agents. Every talk is built to the room and ends with something the audience can do the same week.
The talk he gave at Ai4 2026, the largest applied AI conference in the world. Three acts: who he hired, who he fired, and how to hire. The room watches an org chart of 150 agents build itself, then learns the Trust Ladder that decides how much autonomy each one earns.
The leadership version. Why the best people in your organization are drowning, why "work harder" stopped being a strategy, and how a manager gives every person on the team a staff without adding headcount.
Based on his book. Hard work is no longer a competitive advantage, because everyone works hard. The people pulling ahead are the ones who hired AI employees before their competitors knew that was possible.
Hands on. Every person leaves with three working agents built to their own job: one that drafts, one that acts with approval, and one they are ready to trust alone. No technical background needed, and no one gets left behind.
"The agent does the work. You sign the name."
The line that closes every talk, and the reason audiences trust the rest of it.
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