## Metadata - Author: [[Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: The Revolution Will Be Ticketed - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/the-revolution-will-be-ticketed - Read date:: [[2026-05-09]] ## Highlights > One AI startup periodically publishes essays about how their ambitions are somewhere between [destroying the world](https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology) and [saving](https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr5mf5bqkmzncbx6bz65jggf)) > Decades ago, companies like Microsoft changed the world with Windows and the personal computer. But they did not author what happened after. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr5nfm4vmshv0sj1fqkn4cd6)) > Box CEO Aaron Levie: ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr5nfdvnn9b4bcha70b35f14)) > > amount of work that is going to be created to implement agents in enterprises will exceed anything we imagine today. > AI companies cannot do that work. They can help with it—they can spend billions building [consultancies](https://www.businessinsider.com/blackstone-anthropic-hellman-goldman-sachs-ai-joint-venture-consulting-2026-5?utm_source=aidailybrief.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=why-openai-and-anthropic-are-becoming-consultants) and [deployment companies](https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-sets-10-billion-private-equity-joint-venture)—but it too will ultimately be carried out on the ground, across a million “internal agent engineering” teams, testing new ideas against their specific problems, rebuilding their companies around “intelligence.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr5nck4p6e8cratgmrxn00vb)) > if you are a bold entrepreneur who wants to change the world with ambitious artificial intelligence technologies, are *you* building the cathedral, or are they? Who is the real architect of the future—who is the most trailblazing pioneer?—the AI company, or the internal teams that are thinking about, uh, business technology and the internal flow of information? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kr5p9060bz5m4h2vczykat5t))