"Silicon Valley is in the grip of AI panic. Companies are rushing towards AI at breakneck speed, boards are pressing for faster results, investors are asking startups "Where's the AI?" if they haven't jumped on the bandwagon already. As a result, CEOs are arriving at meetings with urgent realizations about falling behind, founders are working extreme schedules, and entrepreneurs are sacrificing travel, vacation, and personal relationships for the cause."
"Success is a compounding game Building a business isn't a sprint-it's a marathon of sprints. In many team sports, such as hockey, the "repeat sprints" metric is a better predictor of performance than a straight-line dash. Business is the same way - you have to know when to push, but you also have to learn to recover quickly, and most importantly, how to keep going, over and over again."
AI-driven urgency is pushing companies and founders into extreme schedules, with investors and boards demanding rapid AI adoption and executives reporting 100-hour workweeks. Founders are sacrificing travel, vacations, and relationships in pursuit of immediate AI results. Prolonged burnout and nonstop quarters are unsustainable and rarely produce lasting exits. Building enduring businesses requires a compounding approach: steady accumulation of talent, industry expertise, brand recognition, and customer trust. Business operation functions as a marathon of repeated sprints, requiring strategic pushes, rapid recovery, and consistent execution over years rather than one-off periods of frantic work.
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