Chevaan Wickremasinghe

co-founder & CEO of the Apollo Consulting Group.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@DarioAmodei For someone who has not got close to a serious AI lab, I am scared about the fact that I do not know why the frontier model providers are so scared. How bad can this really be?

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@sama Cute

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@Clear_Eyed_Take @chamath Grant total automation. Now the only question: who owns the robots? Whoever does just captured 100% of output. That hands capital the whole pie, not socialism.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@Clear_Eyed_Take @chamath Same sermon they preached about tractors and PCs. 200 years of “this time machines end the system,” 200 years wrong. That’s YOUR bias.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@chamath No doubt here.

[Apollo Consulting Group @weare_acg]

@chamath Half true.

A company full of talented people can still be chaotic if it’s systems are broken.

But the opposite is also true.

Great systems without great people create mediocrity at scale.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@Kaabiummim @chamath the leverage just isn't on their balance sheet, it's spread across millions of host P&Ls. and that's worse: you can refinance a building, you can't refinance a million owners deciding the math stopped working. all the exposure, none of the levers.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@snellchapo @DavidSacks I agree with @DavidSacks on of the macro.

But this AI job apocalypse topic is addressed really poorly. People are focused on dooming or completely underestimating when the goal should be to educate and prepare.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@PeterDiamandis Define ‘push back’.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

Most people have no problem doing what they want to do.

Most people struggle to do what they need to do.

That’s why getting rid of safety nets changes the way you behave because it is no longer about what you want or need.

It is about what you have to do!

[Janith Heenatigala | Photographer & Videographer @j_heenatigala]

Everyone here is quick to jump on the foreign models vs local models situation, I see y'all complaining about brands not using local models, but I also don't see y'all supporting local models when they're actually being used for brands.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

Pinching myself right now🚀

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

What is your prediction for when the next financial collapse may be?

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

Progress that does not feel like progress is often one of the most conflicting things you will feel in business.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

This is symbolic of a key issue in Sri Lanka, which is that people, businesses and governments constantly fail to adapt to the current times.

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

Had a chat with a former senior executive from a conglomerate that turns over more than USD 300 Million a year.

He enlightened me about the fact that one of their flagship subsidiaries in the hospitality industry had a digital marketing budget of around $9000 annually. Unreal.

[Janith Heenatigala | Photographer & Videographer @j_heenatigala]

So are we gonna call it "tweeting"? Or "Xing?"

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

@j_heenatigala Good question😳

[Chevaan Wickremasinghe @ChevaanWickrem1]

The cool thing about this start-up is that when I had my team make this video, we thought we made it so far.

Since then we’ve made it even further🚀

#startup #growth #apollodigital #growthmarketing