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I told Mark Cuban he was wrong about AI. Here’s what founders can learn from my mistake

Fast Company Tech Kunal Sarda July 31, 2026
I told Mark Cuban he was wrong about AI. Here’s what founders can learn from my mistake
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# AI Will Reshape How Your Company Works, Not Just What Your Tools Can Do A founder once turned down Mark Cuban's investment because he thought AI couldn't replace his team's expertise—but he missed the bigger point. When AI makes certain skills cheaper or faster, companies reorganize themselves entirely: fewer approval layers, different team structures, and new reasons for why jobs exist in the first place. The real risk isn't that machines will do your job, but that your whole company's structure becomes obsolete because AI changes what organization even means.

In 2013, I stood across from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. He wanted to invest, with one condition. He told me AI was about to make most of the human expertise my business ran on either free or irrelevant, and the smart move was to build toward where the technology was going, not where it already was

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