CEOs of large companies should learn to program with AI tools. Not to become engineers, but to fundamentally understand the new art of the possible. This hands-on experience allows them to grasp AI's potential and set substantially more ambitious strategic goals.
The true power of AI is not just making individual employees productive. Recent advances allow AI to learn a company's collective intelligence, enabling entire systems and organizations to operate autonomously for days—a much more profound and underappreciated shift.
European regulations, intended to curb monopolies, ironically prevent local tech companies from scaling to compete with US and Asian giants. Prosus's forced divestiture of Delivery Hero exemplifies how this environment unintentionally helps foreign companies win in Europe.
Large companies should empower small, autonomous teams (5-10 people) to experiment rapidly like startups. This "jet ski" model prioritizes speed and validated learning over large budgets and long timelines, de-risking innovation before committing to scale.