Yes, AI is real. Yes, it matters. And yes, after 25 years of running companies through one tech revolution after another, I’m exhausted by the way we’re talking about it.
The way AI is being talked about today — especially in boardrooms, investor decks, and venture capital echo chambers — has stopped being thoughtful and started being hysterical. And candidly, in my day-to-day work running a fintech company, the hysteria simply doesn’t square with the reality.
