American Companies Have 36 Months to Go AI-Native or Get Left Behind | Drew Cukor, TWG AI

I took my desktop computer to Afghanistan, and I proceeded to do my mission as an intelligence officer, primary intelligence officer with 3,500 marines using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and email. Now that's probably fine for 2001, but was it fine in 2010? Is it fine in 2015? How about 2020? How about 2026? It is not fine to move little chiclets around a PowerPoint slide. Now I wanna offer the same thing to the business world. Is it fine to do your asset management work in Excel and then bury all of that insight in an Excel spreadsheet and file it away in a Microsoft file folder system and put it on SharePoint. Because when you put your data inside of these Microsoft products, you're basically putting a tombstone on it because that's where data goes to die. This is a disaster. You think it's important that enterprises throughout the economy adopt AI in order to keep ahead of China. But can you talk about what are the risks? We need to face them in a competitive way. They're adopting AI much faster than we are because they're literally going AI native from the start. Legacy companies, if they don't make this transition quickly, having to face AI native start ups in their industries. Let's start by having you introduce yourself and give that background, your work at JPMorgan and then how you got to TWG. Then, we'll go back and sort of run through my Maven questions and then get to, TWG, which is not unrelated. Yeah. Hi. I'm I'm Drew Kukor, and, I spent thirty years in the marines as a young officer, all the way through the rank of colonel. It was a wonderful time. It was a great career. I wouldn't change a thing about it. And, I was an intelligence officer, during that time and had the privilege of serving with phenomenal marines and soldiers and sailors and airmen and great commanders and great marines that serve with me. And, you know, I just I look at other people, and I I just say I'm so lucky I got to do that. So, and then I left, I left, the the marine corps because of, you know, retirement mandatory retirement age. And, I got I got a chance to work at JPMorgan and and get to serve there. I had a chance to work with Jamie Dimon and Laurie Beard and all the business CEOs. And, you know, my job was to help with AI transformation, and, you know, I had a a large team of data scientists that I had the privilege of working with and a large team of engineers, and we built some great stuff. And then, I had another chance, to come back to California, which is where I grew up, and I'm actually coincidentally here today in in the Santa Monica office that we have. And now I work for the Walter Group, TWG AI, and have the privilege of …