Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Ep 648: How 74% of Enterprises Get Real AI ROI While Pundits See Failure

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

Is it AI failure or AI success? 🤔We see massive trillion dollar valuations for AI companies, yet constant ‘AI bubble’ bust stories. And we see stories playing out in the media that say AI is both an enterprise boon and a complete waste of time. Welp…. A new study from Wharton will hopefully put this to rest. Among other things, it shows that 74% of companies see a positive ROI on AI and also lays out the roadmap to debunk all the naysayers along the way. Join us as we dive in.Ep 648: How 74% of Enterprises Get Real AI ROI While Pundits See FailureNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Wharton Three-Year GenAI ROI Study74% Enterprises Achieve GenAI ROIEnterprise AI Success vs. Failure NarrativeMIT Viral Study Debunked (95% Failure)Productive AI Focus: Boring Tasks WinEnterprise AI Training Crisis AnalysisExecutive vs. Manager AI Optimism GapSkills Paradox: AI Use vs. AtrophyTimestamps:00:00 AI: Success or Failure?03:41 "ROI Debate Over Generative AI"08:27 "Grow Business with Generative AI"12:19 "Study's Fatal Flaw Exposed"16:28 AI Deployment Challenges and Insights19:11 "Training Crisis in AI Adoption"22:01 "Build an AI-Focused Team"25:39 "AI's Impact on Human Skills"29:00 "AI Adoption: Are You Ahead?"31:43 "AI Era: Human Transformation Rules"34:52 "AI Evaluation & ROI Insights"37:07 "Subscribe, Share, Support Everyday AI"Keywords:AI ROI, enterprise AI success, generative AI, return on investment, Wharton study, 74% of enterprises, AI failure narrative, viral MIT study, 95% AI pilots fail, enterprise transformation, productivity gains, large language models, AI agents, back office automation, executive alignment, moonshot AI projects, specialized killer apps, legal contract review, HR recruitment, agentic AI, algorithmic trading, DeepSeek saga, OpenAI business customers, Nvidia valuation, technology adoption, formal ROI metrics, business linked metrics, top down AI implementation, training crisisSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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I mean, yesterday OpenAI announced it has one million business customers, making it the fastest growing enterprise platform in history. Also this week, AI Bedrock, Nvidia, became the first company ever to be valued at $5 trillion. But... But a few months ago, a viral MIT study claimed 95% of all AI. pilots are complete failures, and this week, a famous investor predicted that the AI world would bust, which sent global stocks tanking due to AI fears. So enterprises are left scratching

their collective heads because both of these things can't be true. So which is it? Is Enterprise AI a massive success or a catastrophic failure waiting to bust? Well, a new three-year AI study out of Wharton looked at 800 companies and it just gave us the definitive answer. And it reveals a truth almost no one is talking about. And that's exactly what we're going to be talking about today on Everyday AI. What's going on, y'all? Welcome. If you're new here, we do this every single day.

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We're going to be recapping the highlights from today's podcast, as well as all of the other AI news that you need to get ahead. But let's just get straight to the good stuff. New Wharton study showed that 74% of enterprises are getting a real return on AI when it comes to generative AI. So on today's show, we're going to spill the brutal honest truth about how those 74% of winners are getting a real ROI. We're going to explore the massive disconnect between the AI failure narrative and the AI boom narrative. And we're going to go deep on that new three-year Wharton study of 800 leaders that cuts through. the noise. So yeah, we shared about this in our newsletter right when it came out last week. But

you need to go read it if you haven't already. If you're listening on the podcast, feel free. Put me on pause. Come back. It takes, I don't know, maybe an hour to read. It's not too long. But this is the name of the report is accountable acceleration. Gen AI fast tracks into the enterprise year three full report. So this is from the Wharton Human AI Research. And this is the third year that they've done this. So it is a three-year tracking study, and that is important. All right. And it is of 800 enterprise decision makers. And it reveals that 74% of those 800 enterprise decision makers have reported a positive ROI on Gen AI. All right. So I think we can put that piece to truth. Is there an ROI on Gen AI? I think this is probably at least a top five,

top 10 study of the last couple of years, maybe one of the top studies of 2025 that definitely answers that question. Yes, enterprise decision makers at a whole are seeing an overwhelmingly positive return on investment on generative AI. But there's a gap between the headlines and the on the ground reality that has never been wider. All right. And we're going to explore that as we get into the details of this study.

But why is it even a debate, right? Why are we having a conversation on, is there an ROI on generative AI? I mean, you've used it, right? Like, if you know what you're doing, right? If you're using the right model, the right mode, basic prompt engineering techniques, right? You've seen large language models with, you know, 99.5% accuracy do the jobs that we humans do, but like 10 times faster, right? And around the clock and without coffee breaks.

So why is there still this this ongoing tug of war on is AI worth it or not? Well, I think there's money to be made. That's why. And this failure narrative really took off with this MIT's viral study back in the late summer that claimed 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail. We're going to pick that one apart a little bit more. So that's kind of the failure narrative. And then we have the success narrative that we just talked about.

Open AI just announced one million business customers, which is a mind-boggling amount of business customers in an AI platform. And then we had this new narrative, the skeptic narrative. So from the big short fame Michael Burry is betting more than a billion dollars, right? putting up the cash, putting the money where his mouth is, that AI stocks are massively overvalued and betting against AI stalwarts like Nvidia. So those are, right? Michael Burry's well-respected investor.

MIT is a well-respected organization. So why the divide? Well, there's money to be made on the other side. Even on the big short side, right? After that story came out, a lot of these stocks went down two to three percent, which is a ton. And if you're putting money on it, right, there's money to be made there just by, you know, causing a media firestorm. The same thing with the Deep Seek saga that wasn't, that was a big fluke back in January, right?

The market cap of the top six US companies, all AI companies, took a multi-trillion, dollar valuation hit over the course of a couple of days. Just so happens. The parent company of DeepSeek specializes in algorithmic trading and kind of shorting stocks. So there's money to be made by being a skeptic. And even on the MIT side, I'm going to get to that in a couple of minutes. But we have to get down to this Wharton study. And yes, it's gotten to the point now where these majority of studies,

You have to ask who commissioned them, who worked on them, and what is their methodology, right? Another one that's been making the rounds recently. Maybe I'll have to do a hot take Tuesday on this one from Menlo Ventures, right? Very well-respected venture organization, but they, yeah, everyone's, you know, their big finding, you know, was based on talking to a couple dozen people. and it showed Anthropics skyrocketing, open AI dropping and oh yeah, Menlo also has I think a $100 million venture with Anthropics. So yeah, it's going to show that.

But you have to always look at a study's methodology. And this Wharton study did it the right way, right? It's a three-year tracking study of 800 U.S. senior leader. So it's not a one-time poll. And this is from companies that have at least $1,000 employees in $50 million in revenue. and the work was conducted by Wharton, Human AI Research and GBK Collective in July of this year. But the top finding and what's grabbing headlines in all the right ways is that 74% of enterprises in this study are already reporting a positive ROI from generative AI,

so from the use of large language models in their organization. And the other big one is usage has gone mainstream. 82% of leaders use it weekly and 46% percent. percent use it daily, right? And those numbers have more than tripled since the first year of this study, right? So first year of the study, eh. Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create, bringing the power and precision of its creative suite into one conversational experience. Meet Firefly AI Assistant now live in the Adobe Firefly app, the all-in-one creative AI studio. Powered by Adobe's creative agent, Firefly AI Assistant lets you start with your vision,

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If I'm being honest, I thought the 76% was low, but I guess that makes sense if 72% of companies can only formally measure it. And 76% say they do find a positive ROI, right? There's maybe a slight disconnect there. But I was actually shocked that I think 76% or sorry, 74% getting the positive ROI is a little low. And the 72% measuring, I thought it was actually high. Right. Maybe they're just fibbing a little bit. But it's actually higher than that when you start breaking it down by sectors.

Right. In tech, 88% saw a positive ROI. In banking finance, 83%. Right? Slower sectors like retail lagged behind and I think brought the overall average down quite a bit, obviously. But there's a big perception gap. And we're going to get into that a little bit later when you talk about the C-suite and VPs versus mid-managers. Now, let's get into it, right?

It's not Tuesday. But I might have a hot take in the tank. A hot take in the tank. That's hard to say when the second coffee hasn't hit. You might be thinking, 74% found return on investment. That seems to conflict. with a study that grabbed way more headlines. And this is one of the reasons, y'all,

why I'm doing a dedicated episode on a study that you probably didn't see here or read about aside from our newsletter. Because almost everyone saw that MIT study, right? And study is in quotes, right? That 95% of AI pilots fail, 95%. So how, how, do those chive. Well, let's quickly debunk that. It was hot garbage. So the 95% failure stat from the

MIT study went crazy viral. As a former journalist, if it bleeds, it leads, right? MIT knew what they were doing. They were ultimately selling something. And they knew that that was going to grab a lot of headlines. And a lot of this journalist's fault. They didn't read anything. They didn't. Because if you read anything, if you have one, 100th of a brain, you know, this wasn't a real study. So this claim was based on just 52 interviews, 52 interviews with authors calling it only directionally accurate. So that essentially, whoever was interviewing decided if it was accurate or not with 52 interviews, which I could do a more well-rounded and scientifically sound study, a more sound study in 10 minutes, literally, right? You could send it out to our

everyday AI email newsletter audience, a real study, a real survey, and get something better than this. But hey, you get a stamp from MIT and MIT selling something, obviously, at the end. And the media just copied that big headline without reading the fine print and the actual explanation and then panic outpaced the truth. And the truth was, well, the study's fatal flawed. It called any AI pilots failures if they showed no profit literally on P&L, no profit in just six months, which is no one measures any kind of pilots like that, let alone AI pilots that no one understands. And this ignores the real timeline, which is usually 18 months to three years. And that is

exactly what the Wharton study tracks. That's what enterprise transformation. That's the road of travels. But obviously, the MIT report had a hidden agenda, right? Essentially, they said, oh, well, all these AI pilots are failing and you actually need a gentic AI and hey, MIT has that covered. Right. So here, get this membership right to our, to our agentic AI offering here at MIT. So yeah, it was a bad marketing study. It's enough on that.

You can go, if you want more on that, go listen to episode 606 inside MIT's viral AI study. The reason why 95% of AI pilots do not fail. All right. So got that hot take out. So a little bit more about how this study actually has unfolded over the years and what they've found. So essentially, they've labeled it exploration, 2023, 2024 was experimentation. In 2025, it's accountable acceleration. So like I said, in 2023, they found that only 30, it was only 30% usage, right?

Now in the 80%. And back then, it said that leaders were fascinated but cautious in wondering if AI worked. Last year in 2024, they found a 72% usage. Spending was up 130% and they're asking, where's the value or where's the ROI? Right. And then this year,

they found it because they found 74% reported ROI, 82% usage. And then they're asking, well, how can we scale what works? Spending is increasing. And here is the AI return

on investment truth that no one talks about. All right. Boring productivity gains are what wins. That is where you get return on investment. All right. And I actually have a great, but I'm being honest,

I've done this podcast 650 plus times. I say probably one of my top five podcasts. I'm going to tell you at the end that really breaks down this ROI myth in the steps that your organization needs to take. So make sure to stick around to the end. And I'm going to tell you, which episode to listen to. But the Wharton study found that boring productivity wins. That creates ROI on AI and moon shots fail. So it said that boring tasks like data analysis and

summarization scored the highest. Essentially, they created this index, you know, looking at different skill types or different types of work to simplify it, right? And then they gave it a score. And the boring tasks, obviously, had extremely high productivity gains or time savings, which obviously leads to ROI. But the specialized killer apps showed huge value. So this is numbers above 100, so, you know, such as legal contract review and HR recruitment. But then there were certain AI tasks that didn't do too well and didn't have great ROI index scores, such as 58% for deploying AI agents.

So yeah, if you're shooting for the moon and if you're not, right, and you're trying to deploy, you know, 50 AI agents, yet no one at your organization has been trained on LLM 101. Yeah, that's going to fail. Moonshots are going to fail, especially when ongoing training and development is plaguing the everyday enterprise. So here's kind of. the gist of the Wharton findings.

Well, money follows proof, not hype. Because they showed that 88% of leaders expect budget increases in the next 12 months. That to me comes as no surprise. Actually, I would have expected low 90s on that. That's what a lot of other studies show. But it's working, right? R.O.I is happening when you look. at spending. And when you look at, unfortunately, hiring is going down across the board. Not in

every single use case in this study. I can't, right? This study is actually super in depth. It is really good. Like I said, you need to go read it for yourself. It's very visual. So it's longer, but it's visual. It's a quick read. But they did see that critically, 11% of organizations are now cutting legacy IT and HR programs to fund AI. Right. So, cutting from IT and HR, especially now looking at today's business landscape, right, when a lot of companies are going through a high rate of turnover, right? Even when you talk about remote and hybrid work and how that increases the need for solid IT departments, they're cutting IT and HR and investing in AI. But 30% of tech budgets are for

for internal R&D, essentially just trying to build proprietary modes that rivals can't copy. But it's not going to work. And here's why. Because the data also shows that there is a enormous training crisis, which, oh weird, I've been screaming about this from day one. Quite literally, screaming about this for three years. ago that organizations would gladly, right, back in early 2023, we're spending millions of dollars to try and fine-tune, you know, GPT 3.5, but they wouldn't even tell anyone how to use it, right? And everyone thinks it's Google, right? So you have literally talked to so many companies back in,

you know, early 2023 spending six, seven, multiple seven figures trying to fine tune these earlier models, you know, for tens of thousands of employees to use. Yet they didn't provide any training. It's assumed everyone knows how to use these things, right? And now when you stack on the agentic scaffolding and all of the tool use that these models have, and now the fact that these models are agentic by nature, right, and they're models that can think and plan ahead. They reason, right?

There's a training crisis because investment in training actually, dropped by eight points, which is not a good sign, right? And leader confidence in that exact training also collapsed by 14 points. Essentially, AI developments are happening too quickly. And companies are too eager to spend money on the latest technology and spend time, you know, trying to implement it, but not actually training. So the more technology advances, right? When you think of the first version of chat GPT or you think of, you know, GPT 3.5, right, think of, or, you know, even before that or, you know, early 2020, 22, 2023 models. It was a simpler time, right? And in theory, even though the technology was extremely groundbreaking in the first couple of quarters, it was technically way easier for people to use.

because like I said, your enterprise data for the most part wasn't connected. Obviously, hallucinations were way higher and way more prevalent. So maybe it was a little more dangerous to use, but it was easier to use. Now, right, when everything's agented by default, tool use by default, your company's data in by default, now it's harder. And now you have all these different modes and models, right? But 49% in the Wharton study site, recruiting, advanced, AI talent as their single biggest challenge, yet they aren't even training internally, right? Talk about a paradox.

You know, almost half of everyone says, yeah, we can't recruit anyone good at AI. Oh, yeah, but we're not training anyone, right? We're not trying to learn, right? Call us. That's what we do. Get you. Like, I always tell people, right? And I'm not trying to say this in a like, oh, you need to hire, you know, hire us to

train your company. It's what we do. But your team needs a bunch of me's. that's what they need. Like, first thing when people hire, like, hire me, I say, hey, you need to find your people who are like me. Every single day, you need a team of people, especially enterprise organizations, those with, you know, thousands of employees. You need a team of people. All they do is they keep up with the latest AI technology, whatever you're playing with, right?

Whatever you're using in production, need to have people constantly receiving, collecting feedback from your frontline. users. You need to have people testing fallback models. What happens if the next model comes out, right? And let's just say you're using Chad GPT Enterprise, right? And GPD6 comes out and it stinks. And all your workflows are broken, right? You need to be having fallback kind of AI operating systems in place. You need to be training people around the clock. Because if you're not, one of your competitors is, and they're going to be the ones that are definitely going to leapfrog you, And the Wharton study actually says when, more on that in a second, because there's actually another problem, which is maybe a little scarier when we talk about human potential.

Well, that in a second. This is more on the hierarchy, kind of the perception gap that paralyzes action. So the study found a massive disconnect, said that 56% of VPs are highly optimistic about adoption, but only 28% of managers, half the percentage. The people that are actually using this on the front lines share that optimism. So there is friction. And friction kills momentum. And again, literally had a whole episode dedicated on this back in 2023, y'all, here we are, almost in 2026.

Hate to sound like a broken record. It's, this is going to continue. That gap, this perception gap is going to continue to widen because so few organizations are taking. making AI implementation as a people management issue. Everyone's looking at it as a technical implementation. It is a people management implementation. The reason why there's the gap, right? Because your VPs, your C-suits, especially for public organizations,

they see AI capabilities when they get their hands on it and experience it themselves. They think shareholder. They think boardroom. They think profit. That's why they're optimistic. Mid managers don't. They think this is my job. This is job security.

This is my role. This will make me redundant, right? Top-down AI implementation is going to fail every time. And the Wharton study shows this, that there is just friction, and that friction is killing momentum. And maybe what's all Ultimately, more troublesome is this skills paradox because the study found that 89% agree that AI enhances skills, right? It's going to make you better at whatever you do. So whether you're in data, finance, creative writing, advertising, a STEM-related field, research, it doesn't matter.

AI, if you use it correctly, if you understand the technology, it's going to make you better. But 43% of people simultaneously fear skill atrophy. So this kind of creates this vanishing ladder as AI automates the very skills, baseline, sometimes junior level tasks needed for training and needed for individuals to practice their craft. And that brings up a new and tricky core challenge, gaining productivity today by augmenting your skills with AI or augmenting your workflow with AI without sacrificing the human capability needed for tomorrow. I've talked about this at length.

Sometimes the more you use AI, the dumber you might feel. Right. And especially if you are really good at AI. That's why I sometimes have to take a step back. Right. That's why sometimes I literally open up a blank word document and I type. Right. Yeah, because I'm in, you know, using different large language models. I use them all all day. You know, eight to most days, six, six to ten hours. Right. Sometimes I need to step away and use my brain without AI.

I need to write down some strategies. I need to do some creative writing, some brainstorming, some problem solving. paper if you're not finding that balance or your team or your organization if you become over reliance you're going to run into what the Wharton study found is this skill paradox and what this all has led to is two different types of companies are merging people are looking at it that rhetorical question i started the show with is AI a failure or is AI a success. Well, you have your winners. They have clear metrics when it comes to R.LY. They focus on back office automation, the boring stuff. And they have strong executive alignment. They're training their teams. They're not going top-down implementation. The losers, they're chasing shiny

AI objects. Every day, something new. New model, new goal, new priorities. They chase sexy moonshot projects, right? Trying different AI agents every single day. And all they're trying to do is chasing efficiency, chasing productivity at all costs, chasing shareholder value, chasing stock price. And that is going to create that cultural resistance. And the divide isn't about technology. It's about culture, execution, and people.

And Wharton, the study said this, said 2026 is when the winners will permanently separate themselves. So in the case where the MIT study measured six-month movement on a profit and loss statement, the three-year study from Wharton showed a productivity transformation. And the data is clear. 74% figured out what works. well, everyone else is debating what's real, what's fake. So those companies that have had clear data and they've been able to measure different tasks, different projects, different workflows, pre-AI and with augmented AI,

they've already got it figured out. So the question that you have to ask is, how far ahead are that 74% going to get? And are you truly part of that 74%? Has your company actually found positive ROI on generative AI? And is it enough? And are you radically transforming the way that your organization does day-to-day work? Because let me tell you this. Let me drop one of my little buzzwords and phrases that I hate.

I've rewritten it. Right. If your organization is talking about upskilling with AI and reskilling with AI. Or if you talk about, you know, someone using AI, I won't take your job, right? Or AI won't take your job. So I mean, using AI will take your job, right? It's all wrong.

All that is wrong. Upskilling with AI, reskilling with AI, you're going to fail. That assumes you are going through similar steps and just sprinkling in AI when it seems convenient or when something can do it faster. That's not becoming an AI native or an AI first organization. What's my word, y'all? If you listen to the show, you know. You have to unlearn.

You don't upskill or reskill. You unlearn and rebuild as an AI native first organization. But it starts with R.O.I. It starts with reverse engineering, your day-to-day tasks, your day-to-day workflows, your same SOPs that you've been running, your blueprint you've been running for 5, 10, 15, 20 years that's been successful. You've got to be ready to rip it up. Because if you are not truly part of that 74% that has actually, found return on generative AI R-O-I.

Wharton says, and I agree, you're going to get lapped. If you are just doing table dressing AI, right, and you're like, oh, yeah, we gave everyone licenses and yeah, you know, we're writing emails way faster. Here's some fake productivity claims. You're going to get crushed. So here's our take on the study. We need to be investing in people over technology, right? the winners of the next decade won't be the ones with the best tech or using the best

models. It's going to be a moot point, right? What model, what tech? It's all going to be good. It's all going to be fractional of a percentage, better or worse. What will be completely different is the amount of human transformation that you pour into your company. Those are going to be the ones who are going to solve the people problem, the fastest.

So it's a race to manage, change, build new skills, and redesign career paths and redesign your team's literal roles for an AI-first era. So here's kind of my takeaway from the five-step playbook of reading this Wharton study in looking at those companies that found ROI versus those that didn't or those that found higher in different sectors, et cetera. Like I said, the study is very granular. I'm trying to keep at high level. But here it is, five things.

Number one, you need to mandate formal ROI metrics. Get rid of vague goals, right? The study shows that 72% of winners formally measure Gen AIs impact with structured business-linked metrics. Two, need to prioritize those boring wins. Forget about the moonshots. Focus on productivity. Focus on measuring those boring tasks. Number three, solve the people problem first.

don't buy the tech. Don't just give everyone, oh, here's Chad ShepaD Enterprise License, go. You need to train. You need to fix the training cost. You need to fix the training crisis because the longer it goes unaddressed, the wider that gap is going to be.

And you're actually just hurting yourself. You might be better off if you didn't even try to implement AI in the first place than if you're trying to throw it out throughout your entire organization, mandate its use and not actually train and teach people. Four, you need to bridge, the perception gap. You have to align the optimistic C-suite VPs with those people who are

actually doing the work. You have to have those courageous conversations about, hey, what happens when AI works? And then five, last but not least, you have to fix the vanishing ladder. Human minds and human potential can actually be fragile. And I think, all right, people always think that I'm just like pro AI everything. I'm not. sometimes you got to turn the AI off, right? And you need to practice and refine and sharpen those skills that humans are still going to need. No one knows what human skills are still going to be important in five years, right? When presumably, you know, we're all just orchestrating agents.

But I assume we're still going to have to be able to use our brain. We're still going to have to have a certain level of taste in our domain. We're going to have to still be able to use our brains, right? And we need to fix that problem. We can't just kick everything and automate everything with AI, right, and just be a passive human in the loop. I hate human in the loop. We need to have expert-driven loops.

Those are proactive. Those are ones where you're using your brain. Human in the loop implies that a lazy human is going to check in AI's work. You have to fix that. All right. And, hey, if you're feeling maybe inspired or you want to learn a little more, make sure go check out episode 628. Because, yeah, we go over what's the best LLM for your team.

But the real gem, and I'll probably just create a dedicated episode on this sometime soon, the seven steps to evaluate and create ROI for AI. So not trying to brag, but I'm pretty sure our list, we covered a lot of stuff that Wharton found in their three years. study, and I think some things that are actually better and a little more refined. So make sure you go check that out. But that is a wrap. So let me just say this. If you're still scratching your head and wondering, is AI a failure or is AI a success? It's a rhetorical question. The question's been answered. The question has been answered by any large scale

enterprise study with solid methodology. Right. That is put together. in a way that any large-scale study should be. You can't deny the impact both today, tomorrow, and next quarter, next year that AI will have. So ignore the pundits, ignore the marketing and advertising that's dressed up as studies to dissuade you from following what you know to be true. Generative AI, if you invest in the people, invest in learning,

It is a transformational technology that we've never seen ever, right? There's a reason why the CEOs of all the big companies say it's as big as fire or electricity. It is absolutely transformational. So we laid out how to get an ROI. So no more scratch in your head. It's time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. And how do you do that? Well, you keep tuning in.

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