Hi Reader ,
Happy Thursday! Let's dive into the Big Shift and the 3 Forces Reshaping Our World: AI, Climate, and Empires.
Over the past 7 years, I’ve lived and invested across the AI frontier: led France’s AI delegation to China; contributed to an AI Fund & European AI Alliance; spoke at major AI summits in China, UAE, France, Germany, Norway, Finland; gave lectures to students at Tsinghua University, Centrale & Science Po; run workshops with executives from Mercedes-Benz to China Nuclear Corporation; invested in sovereign AI (Allonia) & creative AI (WeStyle); built an AI-powered trading firm ; wrote the book, Atomic Scaling.
But the launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI — and the explosion of tools like Cursor, Lovable, n8n, Unitree robots and agentic AI — was a Sputnik moment. Suddenly, it became clear: AI isn’t just a technology. It’s a new civilizational operating system. We are living through The Big Shift. And AI is Force #1.
3 IDEAS FROM ME :
I. AI Isn’t a Tool — It’s a Co-Operator
We’ve entered the era of infinite leverage. This isn’t “AI vs. humans.” It’s humans + AI vs. everyone else. We’re shifting from:
- Knowledge work → Intelligence orchestration
- Scarcity of talent → Abundance of agents
- Execution bottlenecks → 24/7 copilots
But here’s the catch: Agency is now the bottleneck. Most people are still waiting for instructions. Builders are training agents, compounding output daily.
II. AI Makes Intelligence Abundant. Judgment Rare
Everyone has access to ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney — yet most are overwhelmed, not empowered by AI. Drowning in algorithmic noise from TikTok, Meta, and YouTube, the people consume instead of compound.
Intelligence is now abundant. Judgment is scarce. AI is a double-edged sword: it can liberate or enslave. The edge won’t come from having more tools — but from having sharper filters to avoid emotional surcharge.
III. Atomic Scaling in the AAA (Age of AI Agents)
Micro-teams can now move markets. One builder + one AI playbook = 100x output. One operator + a swarm of agents = product cycles compressed from weeks to days. This isn’t the future — it’s already here.
What are we seeing already?
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3 founders, each with 12 AI agents, each driving $10M+ ARR
- An operator seamlessly scaling multiple ventures with a prompt stack
- A designer running on generative workflows
- A marketer deploying autonomous funnels
TTHG — “Tiny Team, Huge Growth". #Atomic Scaling
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS :
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“AI will not replace humans, but humans with AI will replace humans without.” — Kai-Fu Lee, AI Investor & Author of AI Superpowers
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“AI is the defining technology of our time. It’s like the steam engine or electricity—it’s going to change everything.” — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
1 ACTION FOR YOU :
Run an AI Leverage Audit. Ask yourself: What am I doing manually and daily that AI could do better or faster? Do I have a personal branded AI stack — or just access to random tools? What would it look like to scale my output without scaling my number of hours? Start small: one prompt, one agent, one automated edge. Then compound. Daily. This is not automation. It’s augmentation.
Let's Play,
Ludovic Bodin
3x Entrepreneur, 2x Unicorn Investor, 1x IPO. Founder of BOBIC Generational Wealth and Author of Atomic Scaling
P.S. I’ve never done this before.
For the past 3 years, I’ve been obsessed with one question: How do small, elite teams scale to $100M+ — with just 5–20 people?​
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I dove deep — interviewed top founders, invested in two unicorns, and captured it all in Atomic Scaling — the playbook behind teams generating up to $93M per employee. Now, for the first time, I’m giving the full book away — completely free.
Most founders still follow the Blitzscaling model: hire 100s to reach $100M+.
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