#alberto-ravagnani

#alberto-ravagnani

You just have to immerse yourself in it. You should just constantly be building. That's what's going to give you the best chance of having the relevant skill set that is needed to make a difference in technology.

"I'm not [hiring] anyone in between," he says, noting that he recently spoke with a promising candidate who said she'd not used Claude Code-nor had she built anything with agents. She didn't get the job.

Cavai has built the world's leading global conversational advertising cloud by working closely with brands, publishers and agencies to enable experiences which boost audience engagement. Its clients are experiencing massively increased ROI thanks to these non-interruptive ad formats which enable two-way dialogue between audiences and brands.

According to the report, more than 80% of marketers say they feel pressure to introduce AI into their workflows. Yet only 6% say AI is fully embedded in their day-to-day operations. Most teams remain in the experimentation phase rather than using AI as part of core marketing processes.

My journey as a bootstrapped founder has been pretty unique, and I love to share my insights and lessons learned with others who may be traveling along a similar path. But there's another dimension, too. I want to be embedded in the communities that I think Jotform should reach. If you know me, and my product feels familiar, you're more likely to think of us the next time you need an online form builder.

Reid Hoffman doesn't do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and Airbnb in their startup days. He has also fashioned himself, via books, podcasts, and other public appearances, as something of a public intellectual-a pro-capitalist philosopher who still insists that tech can be a force for good. Most recently, Hoffman has emerged as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent defenders of artificial intelligence.

AI has quietly unlocked some of the biggest opportunities I've seen in content and marketing. Inside enterprise, the shift is already happening. Massive budgets are moving into AI-driven writing, editing, and distribution - because results are measurable and speed matters more.

This is becoming a familiar pattern. Brands explode onto social media with fairy-tale success. Then the clock strikes midnight, and they are gone. I run Tony Roma's, a 54-year-old brand ranked No. 2 in Newsweek's Excellence Index, after Starbucks. Our unit count is not what it was in the 1980s, but we continue to serve customers profitably across five continents. Here's the tension: Social media has genuinely democratized entrepreneurship.

Even before he'd graduated from the University of Bath in 2024, Arnau Ayerbe landed a highly coveted role as an AI engineer with JP Morgan - yet he felt limited and uninspired. "I realised very quickly that the person to my right and to my left were going to be me in 20 years, and I didn't want to become that," recalls London-based Ayerbe.

"I really do believe that we could have models that are a country of geniuses in the data center in one to two years," he added. "One question is: How many years after that do the trillions in revenue start rolling in? I don't think it's guaranteed that it's going to be immediate. It think it could be one year. It could be two years. I could even stretch it to five years, although I'm skeptical of that."

By the end of 2026, more than 80% of small businesses will be using artificial intelligence for marketing. That's the picture emerging from Constant Contact's Q1 2026 Small Business Now report, which surveyed over 1,500 SMB owners across five countries. The numbers tell the story: 54% of small businesses already use AI marketing tools, and another 27% plan to start this year. In a single calendar year, AI will go from a slight majority to near-universal adoption among small businesses.