I told Mark Cuban he was wrong about AI. Here’s what founders can learn from my mistake

In 2013, I stood across from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank. He wanted to invest, with one condition. He told me AI was about to make most of the human expertise my business ran on either free or irrelevant, and the smart move was to build toward where the technology was going, not where it already was. Off camera, I told him he didn’t understand the work. I told him the judgment my team brought couldn’t be automated. Then I turned down his money and went home proud of myself. Three years later, AI…