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Build, Buy, or Wait: The Leader’s Guide to AI Adoption

How to appoint (or become) your company's next chief of AI
Your business needs a chief of AI. Here's everything you need to know about how to appoint one, including a job description.

Why is Twitter rebranding to X?
Elon Musk announced that Twitter will rebrand to X. Yes, just X. We take a deep dive into the reasoning behind his decision, and what it signals for the company's future.

How should your business use generative AI?
Learn how to implement generative AI at your business, depending on your customer readiness, stakeholder buy-in, and data access.

How Squishmallows became the top-selling toy of 2022
What do Lady Gaga, Warren Buffett, and your eight-year-old nephew have in common? They all collect Squishmallows.
But if you’re not a collector, you might be scratching your head and thinking, “Why are these run-of-the-mill stuffed animals so popular?”
In this post, we dive into how the viral brand was able to break $100M in sales with a great marketing strategy (using lessons from Scott Galloway, Marcus Collins, and more).

3 proven ways to get customers to share your product
Here’s a simple fact about human nature: The better something makes someone look, the more likely they are to share it.
You probably noticed this on your Instagram feed at the end of last year, when a metric ton of your friends shared their Spotify Wrapped playlist.
What makes sharing the Spotify Wrapped playlist so irresistible?

4 proven business strategies from NYU Stern Prof. Scott Galloway
Growing a business can be rough. Even after you’ve drafted a masterful business plan and secured enough capital to see it to fruition, you’re still facing an uphill battle.
In fact, 65 percent of businesses fail within their first 10 years.
So how do you beat the odds? You can start by leveraging these four winning concepts NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway lays out in his upcoming Business Strategy Sprint.
We’ll break them down.

Pi had a million users. So why did Inflection just implode (and take Pi with it)?
Microsoft just cannibalized a company it was a lead investor in and took its chatbot down with it. Here's what that means for other AI startups.

3 drills to teach your team AI, using AI
L&D might be dragging their feet on training your team on AI (we’ve seen it firsthand). So, use AI itself as your team coach.