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September 18, 2025

Is AI good enough to lay off your engineers?

Are AI coding tools good enough to replace humans? Here’s the verdict from a founder who had to make that choice.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For students
AI
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September 10, 2025

How to hire AI power users

If you want an AI-first team, you need to hire AI-first people. But, like critical thinking, this is not a skill you can suss out with scenario-based questions – you need to see it in action. Here’s how we do it at Section.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
AI
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September 4, 2025

AI’s progress may be holding your team back

On paper, the rapid release of new AI models and features looks like a win for knowledge workers. In reality, teams are drowning in AI overwhelm. Here’s how leaders can help them scale an ever-steeper learning curve.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For companies
AI
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August 25, 2025

How to find AI workflows that actually translate to ROI

AI is pointing out a big point of weakness in a lot of organizations: too few can actually name the value-generating processes that drive revenue. So Machine & Partners’ Ed Ortega is giving you his 5 step framework for doing just that.

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Greg Shove
Edmundo Ortega
7 mins
For students
AI
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January 11, 2024

Where's the money going to be made in AI?

Not every AI investor will make their money back. In this post, we dig into the AI business models that will work, and those that will be the next Pets.com.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
10 mins
For students
AI startups
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January 3, 2024

10 lessons from running a startup in 2023

This was a hard year for Section, but we’ve come out of it fitter and stronger. Here are 10 lessons that I’ve learned about running a startup – hoping they provide some inspiration to you.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
startup
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February 21, 2025

Build, Buy, or Wait: The Leader’s Guide to AI Adoption

Edmundo Ortega spends all day rethinking a company’s core workflows with AI. So we asked him when companies should build custom AI solutions and when they should buy off-the-shelf. That’s when he introduced a third option – neither.

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Greg Shove
Edmundo Ortega
5 mins
For companies
AI
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February 13, 2025

EY's Global Head of AI: Don’t rush to prove AI ROI

If you feel like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out how to make a bulletproof investment in AI, read on for John Thompson’s take on why you actually need to slow down and stop sweating the ROI.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For companies
AI

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