Jack Dorsey: Every Company Can Now Be a Mini-AGI
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Jack Dorsey proposes restructuring companies as **mini-AGI** systems, replacing hierarchies with AI-driven intelligence layers that ingest artifacts (Slack, code, docs) for real-time querying, enabling flat orgs (2-3 levels max at Block's 6,000 employees) and customer-led roadmaps via proactive capabilities, interfaces, and world models. Block executed 40% layoffs to reboot toward three roles—IC (builders), DRI (owners), player-coach—focusing human judgment on alignment while AI handles decisions. Key CEO advice: embrace constant learning from every encounter, meditate for focus/impermanence, cultivate ALE (authenticity, logic, empathy) plus taste and rapid reprogramming amid AI's structural shift.
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Since last year, Jack Dorsey has felt existential dread and hope about what companies will become. He questions traditional structures and sees only one durable structure lasting: treating companies as mini-AGI (artificial general intelligence). This stems from fear that his company could become irrelevant soon.
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Block, is the only founder with two companies in the S&P 500. Ruf Botha, Sequoia partner and Block board member, joins. Dorsey's article "From Hierarchy to Intelligence" is a manifesto rethinking organizations from first principles: eliminate hierarchy, put AI at the center. Block is transforming its organization. Dorsey seeks feedback on the article. Second half covers CEO advice: building boards, second acts (Cash App vs. original Square), CEOing two companies, being brave vs. going with the flow.
Dorsey questions hierarchy's function: it's about information flow to many people at human scale, iterated over 2,000 years. Now, foundational moment to question it, especially communication flow. Block is remote-first; every action creates artifacts (Slack messages, emails, pull requests, code, Google docs, recorded meetings) capturing how the company works, builds, fails, makes mistakes.
Traditionally, humans in hierarchy relay this up and down. Instead, put intelligence on top: build a model from artifacts, converse with the company's intelligence. Anyone, not just CEO, gets access and understanding. Treat company as mini-AGI—it is an intelligence, but not structured efficiently or losslessly for information flow.
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