Billionaire serial entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has some job-hunting advice for his two children — and anyone else who finds themselves looking for entry-level roles — in the age of artificial intelligence.
The advice is simple: Prioritize working for a smaller company over fighting for a job at a large corporation.
At a big business, your AI skills are probably somewhat extraneous, says Cuban: You might know how to use AI effectively, but so does everyone in the company’s large, established IT department.
“Small- to medium-size companies don’t have that depth,” Cuban tells CNBC Make It. “They are typically entrepreneurially driven and don’t have the flexibility to have people research things. Bringing a new graduate on to work on agentic AI projects is inexpensive for them and can get them immediate results.”
Cuban referenced his own company Cost Plus Drugs as an example, in a podcast episode of “The Dumbest Guy In the Room” that published on Sept. 30. “People that understand AI and agentics, [who] can go and look at our processes and automate them using AI ... [can] help us become more productive, competitive and profitable,” he said.
