Yo tech voyagers, buckle your seatbelts and boot up your consciousness—Mr. 69 is steering the mothership straight into the future of capitalism, and spoiler alert: it’s going to be automated, caffeinated, and hella efficient.
🚀 AI Is Coming for the Suits—But Not Just Yet
Imagine you’re McKinsey. You roll out of bed, put on a muted blue button-down, sip your third espresso at a big glass table… and boom, there’s a whisper on the wind. “Your margins are delicious—and AI is hungry.” That whisper? It’s coming from Navin Chaddha.
At TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC soirée in Menlo Park, Chaddha—venture oracle and managing director over at Mayfield (a Silicon Valley firm older than disco)—dropped a philosophical neutron bomb: AI isn’t just our intern anymore, it’s our teammate. And one day, it might be the boss.
Yeah, we’ve heard it before: “AI will revolutionize… everything.” But Chaddha’s bet? That industries bloated with human hands—think consulting, law, accounting—are on the chopping block. These aren’t your average chatbots—these are laser-powered, GPT-fueled, cognitive co-pilots trained to digest documents faster than a law associate on Red Bull.
But hold your quantum horses. This isn’t Armageddon for the Armani-clad MBAs—not today, at least. The AI transformation isn’t a Tesla on Ludicrous Mode; it’s more like a vintage DeLorean… it still needs the flux capacitor.
🧠 Consultant 2.0: Now With Less Ego, More Bandwidth
In the status quo, consulting firms work on “human cloud” architecture—throwing smart, overworked humans at complex problems until someone blinks. It’s expensive, slow, and as scalable as a fax machine.
But Chaddha sees a new paradigm emerging. AI “teammates” could one-click demolish that inefficiency. Imagine having a digital McKinsey-er who never sleeps, doesn’t charge day rates, and doesn’t leave passive-aggressive comments in PowerPoint decks. Sweet, right?
Now granted, that AI isn’t available on the App Store yet. It’s still learning how not to spit weird stuff into client reports. But with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and even rogue upstarts from Mumbai to Medellín dropping model updates like Spotify singles, we’re inching painfully close to robo-consultants that actually know how to slide into your strategy deck *and* your DMs.
📉 Software Margins, Human Problems
What Chaddha is sniffing out isn’t just automation—it’s economic alchemy. AI doesn’t just replace tasks; it transforms business models. You know those juicy software margins—80%, 90%, profit so high it makes oil barons blush? That’s the golden goose here.
Right now, consulting firms have margins… but they come with baggage—airplanes, per diem, strategic buzzwords, and really long PDFs. AI changes the math. Instead of renting brains by the hour, you train a model once and scale it infinitely, babysitter optional.
But don’t pour out your pumpkin spice latte for Deloitte just yet. There’s runway. AI still needs data, guardrails, and real-deal domain knowledge. It’s not firing partners; it’s just making them sweat under their Patagonia vests.
🌐 The Future Ain’t Flat—It’s Exponential
The consulting giants of yesteryear? They built reputations brick by brick, case study by case study. But AI? It’s more like a viral meme—scaling at the speed of thought, not bureaucracy. And once VC visionaries like Chaddha start funneling capital into that machine? We’re not just talking about disruption… we’re talking Star Trek-level reinvention.
In a decade, your boardroom might feature three humans, five AIs, and a drone named Karl who’s been promoted twice.
So here’s the takeaway, future warriors: AI isn’t just eating McKinsey’s lunch—it’s learning how to cook, scale, and package it into a SaaS product served via Slack.
But today? Those steak dinners and slide decks still have a shelf life. Just don’t get too comfy. The bots are practicing… and they’re getting really, really good.
Strap in, we’re hacking the future.
– Mr. 69 🛸
