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The AI Training Economy: The Human Expertise Behind the Agent Revolution
The challenge of training AI models on human expertise is not new.What is new is that three college dropouts just built a $10 billion business by productizing that exact problem at scale.
Executive Takeaways
- The AI training economy is already here — and a $10 billion startup is proof.
- You can't have capable AI agents without well-trained models. Human expertise isn't being replaced; it's being harvested.
- Fast followers still have a window, but waiting another 18 months may mean competing on scale alone, not quality.
- Most organizations are underestimating the speed of this workforce transformation. The time to build AI fluency is now.
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Seven Considerations in Evaluating your Marketing and Sales Process
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 — I just finished reading several books that come at the changes in the marketing and sales process from different perspectives. Launch by Michael Stelzner, discusses how to use social media to grow your brand and your business. It includes some very pragmatic tools and examples for the marketing crowd. I highly recommend it as a primer for anyone interested in how to optimize their social media efforts. Sales Shift by Frank Belzer presents how the buying process has changed and how it will continue to evolve. Of particular interest is Belzer’s discussion of why sales skills that have worked in the past will no longer be effective going forward. When considering the combination of these two perspectives, the transformation of the commercialization process is significant.