Business as usual. While electricity is remarkable, no one gets extremely rich selling it.
End-user value is the only value that can be sold at a profit.
Both Apple and Google are doing a poor job of integrating AI capabilities into their Operation Systems today. Maybe there is room for a new player to make a real AI-first Operation system.
OS is generally expanded to Operating System, not Operation System, in English
An AI-first pane of glass (OS, browser, phone, etc.) with an agent that acts in my behalf to nuke ads, rage bait, click bait, rude people on the internet, spam, sales calls and emails, marketing materials, commercials, and more.
If you want to market to me, you need to pay me directly. If you want to waste my time, goodbye.
(Not saying it's a bad or good thing, nor saying AI is comparable)
- Ray Kroc – Turned McDonald's into a global fast-food empire.
- Howard Schultz – Scaled Starbucks into an international giant.
- Michele Ferrero – Created Nutella, Kinder, and Ferrero Rocher, making his family billionaires.
Water:
- François-Henri Pinault – Controlled Evian via Danone.
- Antoine Riboud – Expanded Danone into a bottled water empire (Evian, Volvic).
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe – Former Nestlé CEO; Nestlé owns Perrier, Pure Life, Poland Spring, etc.
Electricity:
- Warren Buffett – Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns multiple utilities.
- Li Ka-shing – Built major energy holdings through CK Infrastructure.
- David Tepper – Invested heavily in power utilities via Appaloosa Management.
Enron did!
[1] https://www.forbes.com/profile/sarath-ratanavadi/?list=rtb/