Wayne Boulais has spent years thinking about the mechanics behind AI and data-driven companies, from being an early voice in 2012 on the shift toward data-centric software to more recently writing about how AI teams need to balance fast-moving software updates with slower, more deliberate hardware-style upgrades, and how AI "skills" can capture an employee's know-how in a way that raises new questions about ownership when people leave a company. Having started in venture capital in 2000 and worked through both the dot-com crash and the 2008 recession, he brings a long-term, grounded perspective on building companies that holds up across market ups and downs.