
Stephen Messer
American entrepreneur and former CEO of LinkShare
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Aug 7, 2026
132. Rerouting Around the Accident to Build a New Revenue Model
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Stephen MesserGUEST
Because not only are we context switching between customers, the sales stack is 15 to 30 tools.

Stephen MesserGUEST
So to get the basic information that people are trying to do to do their job, they're going into 15 to 30 tools and context switching there.
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Thomas LahHOST
should they start? What is the beginning of that journey for them to help them start this shift?
The Rapidly Evolving Job Market (with Stephen Messer)
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Stephen MesserGUEST
And I think where AI is a bit different is it's not about becoming an expert in a, in a particular topic or an expert in a narrow field.

Stephen MesserGUEST
That has been probably the last 100 years of special- specialization, um, that have really dominated the way companies and organizations generally operate.

Stephen MesserGUEST
I would argue that what makes AI sometimes challenging for people to transition to is that it's a very first principles approach to the world.
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Most AI investors are backing the wrong layer, with Stephen Messer (Internet & AI Pioneer)
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12:20MarcHOST
Can we take a step back and unpack that for the audience? What are these different models? How do they compare against each other?

Stephen MesserGUEST
For your audience, you've been told by everybody that AGI, this, this, this amazing artificial general intelligence, will do everything.

Stephen MesserGUEST
So each model only becomes good at a narrow field that it's been trained on.

Stephen MesserGUEST
Words and images can give you the illusion that these things are better at things, so I'll give an example.
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17:38MarcHOST
And one of the things these big corporations are also saying is that, "Why should we pay millions of dollars for these models and at the same time also train them with our proprietary data and basically lose our competitive advantage?"
