Long Strange Trip: CEO to CEO with Brian Halligan Jack Dorsey: Every Company Can Now Be a Mini-AGI
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Apr 2, 2026 
Roelof Botha, Sequoia partner and Block board member, offers venture and board-level perspective. Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Block, outlines rebuilding a company around an AI intelligence layer. They discuss why hierarchies may be obsolete, a three-role company model, cutting 40% to reboot, AI-native startup advantages, and how CEOs must change to align company intelligence.
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Measure And Shrink Org Depth
- Measure organizational depth from CEO to any individual and target reducing max depth (Block aimed from ~5 to 2–3 this year).
- Shorter depth becomes manageable because the intelligence layer amplifies reach and context.
Company As World Model With Proactive Intelligence
- Treat the company as concentric layers: central world-model intelligence, edge humans aligning to customer outcomes, and interfaces/capabilities in between.
- Jack says proactive intelligence will prompt customers and compose features in real time from capabilities.
Start By Ingesting Your Company Artifacts
- If you run a 100-person company, question whether hierarchy helps solve your customers' problems and audit the artifacts you already produce.
- Put those artifacts into an intelligence and let querying reveal legibility and roadmap gaps faster than human reports.
