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Default to Urgency
The operating cadence behind AI Squared's speed.
How it works
- 1Internal rule: respond to every email within four hours.
- 2Target: acquire in 120 days or less, deploy technology in 120 days or less after closing.
- 3At scale, two acquisitions per quarter.
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He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AIListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The CURA CompaniesTodd's filter for where AI creates the most value: Complex, Urgent, or Administrative businesses.Own the Restaurant, Don't Make the PastaAI Squared's operating philosophy for every company it acquires.Value Laddering and Behavioral PsychometricsHow AI Squared turns human decision-making into a competitive weapon.Disaggregate the EBITDA DriversThe playbook for where to deploy AI first inside a newly acquired business.The Infinite Elasticity of CapitalismTodd's 600-year rebuttal to the AI jobs panic.Interested and InterestingTodd's two-job rule for staying sharp as a professional.
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