Evercore's Mark Mahaney on AI boom: We're a little less 'bubblelicious' than we were 3-4 months ago
PushButton AI Team ·
Evercore's Mark Mahaney on AI boom: We're a little less 'bubblelicious' than we were 3-4 months ago
The AI hype is cooling down. That's actually great news for you.
Six months ago, every vendor was screaming "buy now or get left behind." That pressure pushed a lot of smart business owners into tool
The AI hype is cooling down. That's actually great news for you.
Six months ago, every vendor was screaming "buy now or get left behind." That pressure pushed a lot of smart business owners into tools their teams never touched. Sound familiar?
You're not tech-stupid. You got sold a solution before anyone understood your actual problem. That's on the consultants, not you.
Here's what the cooling market means practically: vendors are now competing on results, not promises. The oversellers are getting exposed. The tools that actually work for real businesses are rising to the surface.
This is the best time in two years to evaluate AI without the noise.
One thing you can do this week: pick your single most repetitive business task — the one that eats 3-5 hours weekly — and ask three AI vendors to show you a live demo solving exactly that problem. Not a pitch. A demo on your workflow.
If they can't demo it in 20 minutes, they don't have your answer yet.
The bubble cooling doesn't mean AI stops working. It means the honest conversation about what it actually does for your business can finally begin.
What's the AI tool you bought that nobody on your team ever opened?
