AI Broke the Career Ladder. Did It Build a Replacement?
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AI Broke the Career Ladder. Did It Build a Replacement?

AI is thinning out the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. There are fewer entry-level roles, fewer easy starts inside big organizations.

OpenAI's Global Head of Founder Experience, Laura Modiano, doesn't dispute that. But she thinks the conversation stops one step too early...

On this episode, David pushes her on the trade-off directly: if AI is closing doors inside large companies, is "just start your own business" a genuine answer, or a convenient one? Laura argues young, digitally fluent builders aren't consolation-prize founders , they're better equipped to build and launch than any generation before them.

Whether that's a real opportunity or a reframe of a real loss is the question the episode leaves open. What do you think?


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