I'll go first:

In large companies, a shocking number of processes are done in a surprisingly unsophisticated way.

For example: an executive from a major corporation was telling me that a tried-and-true process involved someone writing down notes by hand, using their phone to take a picture of those notes, emailing the picture of the handwritten notes to someone, who then wrote something down by hand on another piece of paper to file it away.

In 2026, that is insane.

Companies large and small are aware of hundreds of these inefficiencies—inefficiencies that could all be solved by AI, software, and modern tools.

But here’s the problem: Large companies have so much bureaucracy, inertia, and so many regulations that making these kinds of obvious improvements becomes impossible.

This is the perpetual advantage start-ups and more nimble operations have.

Large companies have the luxury of being able to print money via an entrenched position, so there’s no incentive to improve when you’re already drowning in profit.

But any small company or start-up that relies on what I just described in this day and age is missing tremendous opportunity for growth.