No One Works Here

PAUL CHEEK is a global expert on AI-driven entrepreneurship and enterprise innovation. He is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship & Artificial Intelligence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. As founder of the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute and Entonomy, he develops data systems and software that power AI agent-run businesses. A sought-after keynote speaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics, and recipient of MIT's Monosson Prize for impact on entrepreneurship education, Paul frequently advises industry leaders and shares his insights with global audiences. He has built ventures from seed to scale, with his work featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Inc. To learn more about Paul's work or to connect with him, visit PaulCheek.com.

Foreword xv
Preface xvii
Introduction: The End of Human Time xxi

Part I The Threat 1

Chapter 1 Turning the Latency Challenge into Opportunity 3
Chapter 2 The New Calculus of Scale in Competition 17
Part I ¿ Part II 33

Part II The Changing Landscape 35

Chapter 3 The Node Architecture 37
Chapter 4 The Architect and the Moat 47
Chapter 5 Business Models and Changing Buying Behavior 60
Chapter 6 The Dial-Up Era of AI 67
Part II ¿ Part III 73

III The Opportunities 75

Chapter 7 AI-Driven Enterprises: The New Model of Growth 77
Chapter 8 Everywhere in Every Organization 89
Chapter 9 The New Age Organization Chart 95
Chapter 10 Speed of Creation: The Entrepreneur's New Superpower 104
Chapter 11 Development Versus Distribution: The New Bottleneck 111
Chapter 12 The Rate of Entrepreneurial Experiments 123
Chapter 13 Deep Tech, Medtech, and Pharma: A Different Timeline 131
Chapter 14 The AI-Augmented SME 140
Chapter 15 AI and Private Equity: The Next Frontier 150
Chapter 16 Venture Capital in an Age of AIDEs 158
Chapter 17 Economic Development and the Global Race 168
Part III ¿ Part IV 175

Part IV The Actions 177

Chapter 18 Corporate Governance and Leadership 181
Chapter 19 Mapping the Organization: AIDE Matrix and Risk Asymmetry 191
Chapter 20 Dear C-Suite 200
Chapter 21 WTF Do I Do with AI? 209
Chapter 22 Start with You 220
Chapter 23 Take a Day for Tinker Time 228
Part IV ¿ Epilogue 235

Epilogue: Ctrl+Alt+Company: The Post-Human Organization 237
Conclusion 243
Companion Website 247
Reading Group Discussion Guide 249
Glossary: Building Common Knowledge 251
Acknowledgments 255
Wait, Does Anyone Work Here? 263
References 265
Index 269