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Solopreneurs: Why Small Businesses Thrive with AI #shorts
Alice Bull explains why she chooses to work with solopreneurs and small businesses on AI: you can see the difference you have made far sooner than inside an enterprise. She contrasts that with a large US financial services firm where layers of hierarchy slow everything down.
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Asked why solopreneurs interest her, Alice Bull says she has always worked with quite small businesses and enjoys it because you can see yourself making a difference a lot quicker than when working with an enterprise business.
Her contrast is a friend who works for a large American financial services company that is ramping up its AI adoption. She describes the process as slow, with so many layers of hierarchy that it is genuinely difficult to affect change quickly. She is careful not to frame this as a failure — she says she thinks they are doing it the right way, because a business that size cannot afford to get it wrong.
Her closing observation is the cost of that caution: by the time a company like that completes one round of trying something, the field has already moved on to the next thing.
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Why solopreneurs? What are they interest you? >> Oh, that's a very good question. I think I've always worked with quite small businesses and I really really enjoy working with small businesses because you can see yourself making a difference a lot quicker than if you're working with an enterprise business. So, um I I love doing that.
And I think especially and as you were saying, you know, with big businesses coming into it, I've got some friends for example, I've got a friend who works for a huge financial services company in America and they're they're starting to ramp up their AI adoption and it's really interesting to hear how slow >> >> slow slow slow the whole thing is and there are so many layers layers of hierarchy in those kinds of businesses that it is really difficult to affect change quickly. >> Mhm. >> And you know, it's almost like in a company like hers and I think they are doing it the right way because they are such a huge business that they can't afford to get it wrong.
But it is such an interesting slow process because by the time they do one round of like, "Okay, we're going to try this. " It's already moved on to the next thing.