No Talent, No Alpha

No Talent, No Alpha

AI First. Humans Maybe.

Capital is flowing to AI, not people—and that changes everything about workforce strategy.

Apr 08, 2025
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It’s been a volatile few weeks—not just in the markets, but inside organizations, too. Amid the broader selloff, Shopify quietly drew a line in the sand—and it might be the most important workforce signal we’ve seen for quite a while.

Their new rule? No new hires unless AI can’t do the job.

That one sentence signals the arrival of something I’ll call the …

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