Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture | Fortune

Kevin O'Leary just told Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle and start focusing on AI.

He's right. But nobody's telling you HOW.

You've probably already tried. Maybe you bought a tool your team quietly stopped using. Maybe a consultant sold you a vision, took the check, and vanished. That's not a you problem — that's an industry that rewards hype over results.

Here's what O'Leary actually understands that most AI gurus don't: small businesses don't need AI transformation. They need AI that solves one specific, painful, expensive problem they already have.

Not a platform. Not a suite. One problem, one tool, one win.

The businesses pulling ahead right now aren't the ones with the biggest AI budgets. They're the ones who picked a single repeatable task — quoting, scheduling, first-draft responses — and automated just that. Then they measured it.

Start there. Write down the one task your team does more than ten times a week that follows the same pattern every time. That's your first AI candidate. No new systems. No code. No consultants required.

Thirty days, one workflow, measurable result. That's how trust in AI actually gets built inside a business.

What's the one task you'd automate first if you knew it would actually work?

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O'Leary is clear-eyed on where he thinks young founders should be focusing their attention: AI. ... small businesses implement tools or developing data ...