Forbes September 11, 2025
If AI is going to matter at all in our economy, it has to matter for small businesses first.
As a search fund entrepreneur, I’ve met and worked with more than 300 CEOs and founders in cities across the U.S. from New York to Las Vegas, Sunnyvale to Maryland. In every conversation, the same concern surfaces: the AI models in our smartphones are more advanced than the technology stacks running our businesses. While the devices in our pockets update monthly, most business systems remain unchanged for years. And nowhere is this more evident than in small businesses.
This matters because small businesses employ more than 61 million people, nearly half the private workforce. Yet just a fraction of 1% are...
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