Pankaj
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Pankaj
@pango
Learning and building AI | AI Engineer | Founder









Revenue per employee up 75% for the top decile of AI/software companies in 2025. Probably doesn’t slow down in 2026 given the December revolution in AI coding agents. Nothing to see here, move along. No evidence of AI productivity anywhere.

Demand for AI fluency surged by 7X, "faster than for any other skill." Exponential change is here. As @bgurley said in June 2024, "run at it". Humans + Machines not Humans vs Machines. s / o @McKinsey

As an executive coach, the most common question I get is about handling an underperformer. Should they give them more time? Should they let them go? Here are the 4 questions I ask to help them solve the right problem:




When is it too early to hire a finance leader & when is it too late? Hosts and KP’s very own @LM_Braswell and @josh_coyne put the question to two experienced finance operators in the first episode of Builders, our new series. Adam Swiecicki, Chief Financial Officer at @Rippling, prioritizes strategic finance, favoring “the banking, private equity background” and “somebody who’s seen another startup before.” @themichaelmiao, VP of Finance and Business Operations at @glean, agrees and outlines what matters most. First, there must be “an understanding of the economics of the business.” Second, the person must be “very comfortable in spreadsheets” and “comfortable with just like a mess.” Both point to the same early profile. A generalist. Comfortable with ambiguity.






