Matt Barron

good chunk of new followers - so doing a re-intro: I'm the sales and marketing leader at an AI professional services company. I also own a personal business that helps IT consulting organizations sell with Microsoft (easiest way to get net new opportunities). I have 4 boys, been married for nearly 15 years, live in greater Houston. I can't stand the thought of living a boring, negative, cookie-cutter life. I put 100% of my energy into every single day. Sometimes that 100% doesn't do much. Sometimes it makes a huge impact. I love the world of AI. I can't stand corporate America, fluffy/fake/political organizations, lack of emotional intelligence and excuses. Coffee, health, family, being organized and selling - I love it all.

@thejustinwelsh was a telltale sign for me to made a hard switch

If you're climbing the career ladder, look at the people already at the top. If they're miserable, you likely will be too. Nothing is worse than climbing a ladder only to find out it's leaning against the wrong wall.

am i the only one that see President's Club vacations for top sellers/performers as lame? there's just something about going on vacation with co-workers that sounds terrible - esp at orgs that do President's Clubs bc they are usually good-sized organizations, which means that you're going to have a typical corporate culture, which to me is repulsive I saw a LI post bragging about going on 10+ vacations as a Prez Club winner...sounds extremely lame to me

This is the best time in human history to build something This is, arguably, the worst time in human history to be a mediocre (or worse) employee

@JohnFesnick 😂😂😂

@EmBeeThree I work with the consulting firms almost every week. I can tell you with certainty that it absolutely does not make me want to jump from a 7 story building with napkins as a parachute and a 12er of Blatz for the ride down. Nope. Not at all.

big box consulting will continue to get exposed and I love every minute of it

@tomfgoodwin last sentence is spot on

Whoever decided self check-in and bag tagging for biz class was a good idea should be shot. Employing huge swathes of staff to train customers how to do their jobs is inexcusable in the hospitality industry. Management consultant thinking is poison

@Polymarket you mean questioning the value of fluffy powerpoints that say to increase revenue and cut costs

NEW: AI is reportedly pushing McKinsey & rival consulting firms to rethink pricing, as clients are “questioning the value” of human advice.

@craigzLiszt when ChatGPT first dropped I loved being able to ask targeted questions to our internal pre-sales engineers making it apparent that their "approach" was bloated, outdated and expensive

you can’t really call people non-technical anymore 2026 is weird

@trikcode 🤣🤣🤣

Vibe coding means the idea guys can finally find out they actually have terrible ideas.

@FracSlap agreed

people managers are no longer needed in this world. i would adjust accordingly

@thejamesperkins that’s exactly it

@EmBeeThree “Naturally good at it” means they can continue to make no effort, safe in the delusion that they “could if they wanted to.”

it’s a massive insult to claim the only reason that someone is good at something is because they are just “naturally good at it” when you know that tons of effort and suffering was required to get there you don’t know anything the ridiculous amount of failure the 1000 times you doubt yourself the frustration and anger just to pick yourself up and try again

@SpaceCoastCRE play with my kiddos

yep

@SynBio1 i’m here for it

Met a guy at a party who called himself the “head of AI” at a mid-sized and well financed company Oh so you build AI tools? No, I can’t code. Oh so you buy AI tools and deploy them internally? No the IT team does that. Oh so you set corporate AI strategy? Not really. As far as I can tell, this man’s job is to 1) Be the kind of rich-looking older gentleman that boomer execs take seriously 2) Spoon-feed those execs AI takes that were ice cold on X six months ago and coach them about how to repeat them in public This experience has radicalized me. This person’s job is proof to me that corporate America is not just clueless about AI, they are paying lots of money to fake it This guy’s company and many more like it are going to get obliterated by companies run by 25 year olds and staffed with agent swarms

@stocktalkweekly the best is yet to come too

What America has done with just 4-5% of the world population is astonishing. 20/25 of the most valuable companies on earth are American. The telephone, electricity, A/C, airplanes, semiconductors, nuclear weapons/reactors, GPS, the internet, AI — All invented by Americans 🇺🇸

@NipseyHoussle good take

The issue with these big tech guys is they're probably good at whiteboard interviews but were a tiny cog in a huge machine. They have no experience being responsible for an entire product or a company's set of products. He was probably in charge of a login form button or something for 7 years. Nobody needs that sort of person anymore. Not even big tech. As a tiny startup, I see a resume from AWS/Meta etc come in and put it in the trash immediately. I don’t even read it. They’ll never transition from working 2-3 hours a day with free lunch etc to working at a normal company.

@ajlamesa it’s out of control

I feel like we’re not talking enough about how tip creep has made people feel bad about the economy. The America in which I grew up didn’t ask me to leave 20% extra on top of my $3 Dunkin’ Donuts purchase.

@LiebermanAustin agree. the right situation with the right families is a lot of fun

As a parent of a 10 year old who LOVES baseball and plays travel ball I can promise you this is selective reporting. Yes there are certainly teams and parents who overdo it, but there are plenty of options that are affordable, fun, competitive and give your kids a great opportunity to learn different sports, team work, get outside, etc. We have 4 other kids and honestly we enjoy weekends at the fields. The siblings all get to run around and play together, we’ve grown close family friendships, etc. And what’s the alternative? Sitting inside playing video games? Wasting money on other stuff? Families aren’t forced to spend a ton of $$. If they have the means and they chose to, good for them.

@jain_harshit why would this person post this publicly on LI

🚨 Meta is forcing managers to convert to IC role.