My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI Boom The video from my closing keynote at TEDAI San Francisco 2025 just dropped on TED.com. It is 7.5 minutes. Short post, because I want you to watch it. Click: Watch the full talk on TED.com The thesis in one line San Francisco’s AI edge is not the technology. It is the community, and there is an operating formula behind it. In the talk, I map five distinct cultures emerging in the AI workforce, and I share data on AI native startups that explains why a small team can now outperform a much larger incumbent. Examples include revenue per employee benchmarks I have never seen presented in this type of presentaiton before. How I prepared I want to be honest about what went into this. I rehearsed the talk over 100 times. I worked with the TED speaker coaches that the program provided, and I took every note seriously.…