Jul 17, 2026 · 11 min · 10 segments
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Michael D. LevittHostOkay, let's intact this because there's this highly successful legal tech company right now.
And they're backed by all the heavyweights, you know, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer, Lightspeed.
And they are offering a quarter of a million dollars a year for a director of AI adoption.
No, not at all.
Or even to sell the software, you are getting a staggering $195,000 to $240,000 base salary plus equity.
Right.
And your sole mandate is just to make sure the customers who already bought the tool actually click the button to use it.
Yeah, which is what's fascinating here is that this job posting is acting as a canary in the coal mine for the entire state of enterprise AI.
I mean, paying a quarter of a million dollars for high end tech support just feels like a massive misallocation of capital, doesn't it?
Well, see, that's the thing.
It's not tech support.
I know.
But if it were just a technical problem, right, you could solve it with a standard I.T. ticket.
This is much deeper.
The bottleneck isn't acquiring the technology anymore.
You can just buy license.
Sure.
The bottleneck is fundamentally changing how human beings work once that technology arrives.
OK, so it's like imagine buying a fleet of state of the art Ferraris for your company.
Okay, let's intact this because there's this highly successful legal tech company right now.
And they're backed by all the heavyweights, you know, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer, Lightspeed.
And they are offering a quarter of a million dollars a year for a director of AI adoption.
No, not at all.
Or even to sell the software, you are getting a staggering $195,000 to $240,000 base salary plus equity.
Right.
And your sole mandate is just to make sure the customers who already bought the tool actually click the button to use it.
Yeah, which is what's fascinating here is that this job posting is acting as a canary in the coal mine for the entire state of enterprise AI.
I mean, paying a quarter of a million dollars for high end tech support just feels like a massive misallocation of capital, doesn't it?
Well, see, that's the thing.
It's not tech support.
I know.
But if it were just a technical problem, right, you could solve it with a standard I.T. ticket.
This is much deeper.
The bottleneck isn't acquiring the technology anymore.
You can just buy license.
Sure.
The bottleneck is fundamentally changing how human beings work once that technology arrives.
OK, so it's like imagine buying a fleet of state of the art Ferraris for your company.
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