There's a short list of people who shaped my AI journey before I even knew it was a journey. Henrik Werdelin is at the top of that list.

We met in NYC in 2011. A few months before he launched BARK.

I was the furthest thing from technical. He had a gazillion things going on.

But he made time, answered every question and never made me feel like I was behind.

Those conversations in NYC accelerated my learning curve in ways I'm still drawing from today.

Bark now ships millions of dog toys a month. Henrik has since built Audos.com, an AI-native incubator that can launch a business in 15 minutes.

He hasn't slowed down once.

My hope with this episode is simple.

What Henrik did for me back then, this conversation does for all of you now.

A few things he said that I can't stop thinking about:

1️⃣ Most enterprise leaders are about to hit a wall they don't have language for yet.

2️⃣ AI agents are going to free up enormous human energy inside your organization. The question nobody is asking soon enough: what does your organizational design do with it?

3️⃣ The unlock isn't a better AI strategy. It's a harder question: what is your company's strategy in an age of AI?

Humans + Machines. Never Humans vs. Machines.