Jun 10, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
What does freedom really look like after 32 years of leadership in corporate America, nonprofits, government, and entrepreneurship? In this episode of Freedom Entrepreneurship, I sit down with Mark…
Mark MadridGuest
Stephan PoschikHost
And I know there is a lot coming behind the scenes what we cannot talk about yet.
Yeah, so these decisions, what you just mentioned, I mean, we ended up in a situation where technology is changing so fast with AI, with all these technologies coming out every single day that we really need to rethink on how we make sometimes decisions to... keep our freedom because a lot of people worked very hard as entrepreneurs then they had some kind of freedom and now things are changing so fast that either their business model is not valid anymore or like the experience you just shared with us yeah that you build something but you are not first or not fast enough with the technology and some big player already built it and launched it and threw billions in marketing dollars onto it And then, of course, it's a hard part to compete as a small business owner or as a solopreneur, especially in these areas.
And we do a lot of consulting when it comes to grants that we help other business owners get grants for their technology development.
And so we get about three to five, sometimes 10 business ideas or technologies presented per day, which is incredible.
But on the other hand side, I also see a big difference from the mindset perspective, how they used to build technology even three years, five years, 10 years ago, or how you could build technology nowadays.
And when you think back about 10 years, you or I, we probably needed to have five, 10, 50 developers to launch a software, to launch a technology.
Now, yesterday I had a conversation with an entrepreneur and he said, yeah, you know what I have? one very sophisticated person who is my whole development team and we do not write any code and we do not invent anything ourselves anymore.
And I mean, when I heard this story, I was blown away because this entrepreneur literally launched three apps within the last 24 hours.
How many of you are launching AI endeavors of some sort? Okay, got a few there.
What I would do is I would budget some undistracted time and it's talking about freedom where you just take some undistracted time and I'll give you an example and just go off with AI, your favorite tool.
And I know there is a lot coming behind the scenes what we cannot talk about yet.
Yeah, so these decisions, what you just mentioned, I mean, we ended up in a situation where technology is changing so fast with AI, with all these technologies coming out every single day that we really need to rethink on how we make sometimes decisions to... keep our freedom because a lot of people worked very hard as entrepreneurs then they had some kind of freedom and now things are changing so fast that either their business model is not valid anymore or like the experience you just shared with us yeah that you build something but you are not first or not fast enough with the technology and some big player already built it and launched it and threw billions in marketing dollars onto it And then, of course, it's a hard part to compete as a small business owner or as a solopreneur, especially in these areas.
And we do a lot of consulting when it comes to grants that we help other business owners get grants for their technology development.
And so we get about three to five, sometimes 10 business ideas or technologies presented per day, which is incredible.
But on the other hand side, I also see a big difference from the mindset perspective, how they used to build technology even three years, five years, 10 years ago, or how you could build technology nowadays.
And when you think back about 10 years, you or I, we probably needed to have five, 10, 50 developers to launch a software, to launch a technology.
Now, yesterday I had a conversation with an entrepreneur and he said, yeah, you know what I have? one very sophisticated person who is my whole development team and we do not write any code and we do not invent anything ourselves anymore.
And I mean, when I heard this story, I was blown away because this entrepreneur literally launched three apps within the last 24 hours.
How many of you are launching AI endeavors of some sort? Okay, got a few there.
What I would do is I would budget some undistracted time and it's talking about freedom where you just take some undistracted time and I'll give you an example and just go off with AI, your favorite tool.
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