My sons are at the age now where it is VITAL that I teach them how money is linked to creating VALUE.
For most of their lives, money has flowed from dad to them. They need new shoes? Dad buys them etc.
Tonight, we are sitting down at the dinner table to implement *THIS* plan. I think this will be one of the most important things I do as a father.
Thank you @LewisHowes & @imScottDonnell for putting this in my feed at the right moment.
Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.
Almost nobody understood what he said.
Cuban: โThere are 33 million companies in this country. Arenโt going to have AI budgets. Arenโt going to have AI experts.โ
Not tech startups.
The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.
The businesses that actually run the physical economy.
They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.
Cuban: โYouโve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everythingโs going to be customized to your unique utilization.โ
Software is dead.
The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.
AI ends the contract.
The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.
But customized by whom.
The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.
Cuban: โWhoโs going to do it for them?โ
That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.
Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.
Let them fight.
Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.
Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.
It collects where the brain meets the business.
Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.
Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.
Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.
That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.
You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.
The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.
33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.
Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.
One of the biggest misconceptions that needs to change in the coaching world is..."Head up when you're dribbling."
This simply is not true or even possible.
The truth is just like everything else, choosing the right moment to look up/down is the skill.