Where Should Investors Focus Now? AI, Finance & Business Strategies for Success
Jun 12, 2025
In a rapidly evolving business landscape, focus less on flashy tech and more on solving real problems that companies face. The conversation highlights the shift from traditional IT to AI, creating vast opportunities in cybersecurity and enterprise solutions. Embedded finance and open banking are identified as crucial areas for capitalizing on global money movement. Additionally, the importance of upskilling in healthcare tech is emphasized, revealing inefficiencies waiting to be addressed. The key takeaway? Deliver repeatable value to scale your business.
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Solve Valuable Business Problems
Focus on solving valuable business problems instead of just focusing on technology tools.
Find a problem a business will pay to solve, deliver value, then scale from one customer to many.
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Three Core Business Layers
Most businesses have three core layers: IT infrastructure, finance, and people.
Understanding these layers helps identify valuable problems to solve with software.
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AI Driving IT Innovation
The shift from cloud computing to AI and agentic IT is unlocking huge innovation opportunities.
Cybersecurity remains a massive industry with continuous demand due to evolving threats.
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In this powerful Market Mondays clip, host Troy Millings and guest Paul Judge break down exactly where new graduates, investors, and entrepreneurs should direct their focus in today’s rapidly evolving business world—especially as artificial intelligence (AI) transforms every sector.
Paul Judge demystifies the best approach for thriving in tech: focus less on flashy technology and more on solving real, valuable problems that businesses are willing to pay for. Drawing from his own experience, Paul explains why success often comes from understanding the three core business layers—IT infrastructure, finance, and people.
*IT Infrastructure:* Discover how the shift from the cloud to AI and agentic IT is creating huge opportunities for innovation in cybersecurity and enterprise software.
*Finance:* Learn why embedded finance and open banking are now major arenas for anyone looking to capitalize on the globalization of money movement and fintech disruption.
*People & Healthcare:* As AI reshapes the future of work, upskilling, retraining, and healthcare tech are more relevant than ever. There are massive inefficiencies waiting to be solved in the $4 trillion healthcare industry.
Paul’s advice? Identify a pressing business problem, solve it for one customer, then scale and grow. The tech itself is just a tool—the real key is delivering value and repeatable results.
Whether you’re a recent graduate, a tech investor, or an entrepreneur aiming to build the next big thing, this clip gives you a practical playbook for making smarter moves in a world changed by AI and digital transformation.
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