OKX Founder Star: The AI Era Significantly Increases the Importance of Top Talent
Star, the founder of OKX, stated that attributing corporate restructuring and layoffs solely to AI is an oversimplification.
He believes that the AI era has not diminished the importance of talent but has greatly increased the value of top talent. Most successful companies have always been driven by a small group of top executives who understand the essence, maintain a hunger for success, and pursue results.
At the same time, there have always been mediocre individuals in organizations who focus on impression management, internal politics, and "bullshit." AI will accelerate execution and make it harder for such individuals to hide.
Top talent can build effective systems to harness AI, while bullshitters cannot. AI will accelerate the discovery of organizational truths, quickly identifying high-value talent and exposing inefficient bureaucrats.
Source: Public Information
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Star_OKX has previously discussed the impact of AI on organizations and talent in public forums. This viewpoint continues to emphasize his management philosophy of "execution" and "real results," pointing out that in the AI era, companies will shift from "mass hiring" to a model of "selecting top talent + AI amplifiers."
In terms of capital pathways, OKX and similar tech companies are concentrating resources on top engineers, product managers, and business leaders, using AI to handle routine operational tasks, with the motivation of enhancing overall execution efficiency and decision quality, while reducing internal inefficiencies through a more transparent performance system.
Similar to the organizational slimming seen in Silicon Valley companies after the widespread adoption of AI tools, and the phenomenon described in Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" being prevalent in enterprises, the current tech industry is at a critical stage of transitioning from "competition for talent quantity" to "top talent + AI collaboration."
The essence lies in capital concentration: AI accelerates the discovery of truths within organizations, with its 24/7 execution capability and objective output making low-value behaviors easier to expose, forcing capital, resources, and opportunities to concentrate on those who can truly harness AI and produce high-leverage results, pushing companies from mediocre expansion towards efficient elitism.
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AI will not eliminate jobs; it will only eliminate those who cannot harness AI.
Top talent is the locomotive, AI is the power system, and bullshitters are the unnecessary carriages.
The real cruelty is not AI layoffs, but that AI makes inefficiency impossible to hide.