“Every single Monday was called ‘AI Monday,’” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could work only on AI. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only work on AI projects.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”
Because it had nothing to do with AI
It was an excuse to slash the workforce with relatively little backlash.
and that’s how he achieved 75% profit margin. Let’s see him do that twice.
surprised he didn’t golden parachute out and reload with another company/