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Stephen Messer

Fortune

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Free Paristein!

The young people in those streets did not come out of nowhere. The last 20 years did real damage.

thursday 7

Fortune

Stephen Messer

Rent the model. Own the harness. Own the network.

Every AI stack has choke points. Most are traps.

29.10.2026 6

Fortune

Stephen Messer

AI is everywhere except in the GDP numbers — here is what triggers the break

The productivity data doesn't show the AI boom, and won't until companies stop cost-cutting and start building. Nobody is positioning for that trade.

23.10.2026 10

Fortune

Stephen Messer

The death of humanity

It is not coming. Everyone selling you that story is selling you something. What is actually arriving is the most magical age in human history.

16.10.2026 10

Fortune

Stephen Messer

The SaaS debt trap

Wall Street spent the week arguing about whether AI is slowing down. The other bubble is what the SaaS incumbents did when their multiples collapsed.

22.09.2026 20

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Stephen Messer

AI isn’t changing how companies work. It’s changing what a company is

The companies that win the AI era will be the ones willing to eliminate assumptions built for a world where intelligence was scarce and action was...

15.08.2026 30

Fortune

Stephen Messer