AI & I · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
A CEO uses a naval analogy to describe how companies of different sizes adapt to technological change, particularly AI. He likens a startup to a canoe, a 400-person company to a cruise ship, and a 10,000-person company to a battle cruiser. He praises his own firm's ability to 'point the cruise ship' quickly in adopting AI.
“Basically, like, you can think of companies, even, you know, 10 people, but 400 people, bigger than that, like, they're almost, the bigger they get, the more kind of hard to steer they are.”
“The, you know, maybe a startup is like a canoe and like a 400 person company is like a cruise ship and a 10,000 person company is like a battle battle cruiser, whatever.”
“And, um, I think you've done a really incredible job of like, pointing the cruise ship, um, really quickly.”