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This chapter explores how automation and AI are reshaping talent development across industries, especially in traditionally apprenticeship-driven roles. It highlights the potential for increased job opportunities despite fears of job losses, with a focus on trends in the legal field and implications for finance and technology.

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In this episode, Sasha sits down with Seema Amble, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Seema shares her research on the transformation of the CFO’s office, and how generative AI is powering financial teams. She discusses how AI can empower CFOs and finance teams to focus on strategic rather manual tasks, increasing client communication through automation, the impact of AI on valuations in service businesses such as law and accounting, and the progression from “service as a software” vs “software as a service”. Seema also discusses investing cycles, and how AI adoption in enterprise might follow the trajectory of other technologies, beginning with consumer adoption first.

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LINKS:

The CFO in Crisis: https://a16z.com/the-cfo-in-crisis-mode-modern-times-call-for-new-tools/

Death, Taxes, and Accounting: https://a16z.com/generative-ai-in-accounting/

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00:00) Introduction to Turpentine Finance Podcast

(00:01:44) Discussing the CFO in Crisis Mode article

(00:02:10) Challenges faced by CFOs with legacy software

(00:06:35) The pyramid graph of finance team tasks and market insights

(00:15:10) Generative AI's impact on finance