The Business of Tech

The Business of Tech: AI is eating market research

This is a story about what happens when you combine real human data with AI, and why that combination might just be the future of how companies make their most important decisions.

Office Hours

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I would describe AI is all chip no salsa and that is real insight like what is it you're going to do differently with your business what is it that's unique about your business most new businesses make no sense at the outset otherwise they would already exist.

Fresh Air

Amanda Peet

There are so many people who are older. It's one of the biggest demographics in the country, considerably older than you are. But if you want to live a life, you're gonna be older, even if you're not yet. And like, you're what, in your early 50s? I mean, there's so many people of that age. It's a demographic, you can sell your movies to those people. Why would you? Why would you leave them out?

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Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

for Okta specifically, there's also a world of opportunity as the very concept of a digital "identity" has to expand into things that aren't really people.

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You got to be rich in both camps. And a lot of companies are jumping in to fill this gap. Agents, and a lot of this is because of agents. Agents need CPUs.

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Benchmark vs Travis Kalanick: Can They Ever Be Forgiven?

Getting a 2x over a decade is not what I think people were expecting from Uber under Travis's leadership. Uh, it and Lyft has fallen to just five billion. like he won the capital war and Dar has done a great job managing the business, but I feel like a lot of the success of Uber has been built on the foundation that Travis set up.

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Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage

Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways. Jim calls it Yahoo's original sin.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

Hasbro is now a big company, and it makes everything from Transformers and Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, which are massive and growing businesses.

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The market is demanding another AWS. And so, let's go through the top line numbers first.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

toys and games have become a market for adults as much as for kids. This is really a remarkable conversation: toys are a big, complex business.