I wish someone told me this sooner, last week I went to one of Andrew Yeung’s tech mixer events here in New York City and by hands down it was one of the best events filled with high-frequency, ambitious founders.
With over a hundred people in the startup space, you can only imagine how much talk there was of AI and it’s no surprise. According to Crunchbase, Artificial intelligence startups captured roughly 80% of total global venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2026, pulling in about $242 billion.
Now I’m personally a huge fan of AI, and I use a connected AI-driven RevOps toolchain every day. However, if we’re all using AI, and it’s mainstream, and just the status quo, it literally is does not meet the definition of innovative any longer.
The book Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore does a great job explaining this. There are five cycles every technology goes through: Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority (Pragmatists), Late Majority (Conservatives), and lastly the Laggards (Skeptics).
Innovation has to occur on the left side of the curve. AI is now in the main stream market which is great, but by definition it’s not innovative any longer with such a healthy robust marketplace now fully taken shape.
So I’m still pro-AI personally, but if you talk innovation on the next Trillion-dollar market domains I’m working with my clients on that are in the post-AI world, follow and subscribe for more coming this fall.
