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CEO Johannes Thomas credits AI. When Trivago\u2019s supervisory board met late last year, Thomas told me the debate came down to a choice: \u201cDo you go for efficiency and downsize Trivago to 200 people, or do you go from 600 to an impact of 6,000 by leveraging AI?\u201d They chose to aim for the latter and he now spends more than half of his time on AI transformation, up from roughly a quarter of his time a year ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmall or medium\u2011sized companies with a tech DNA are in a very sweet spot,\u201d he told me, arguing that there are fewer layers of bureaucracy or union politics to slow down adoption. The organization is so flat that he\u2019s now building more applications and systems himself. He designed what he calls a \u201crole evolution agent\u201d that scans each employee\u2019s work, messages, job description and other material to give them a personalized playbook on what to automate and how their job is likely to look different in a few years. \u201cI can suddenly realize things I had in my mind but could not build because resources were constrained,\u201d he said. \u201cI probably spend 10 hours more working a week. I have three kids, so I need to sacrifice even more but it\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
And what happened when he turned that agent on himself? \u201cIt came out: get rid of earnings preparation \u2026 and it prepares me for the performance chat because 70% of the work is done,\u201d he said. His advice: \u201cI would tell other CEOs the exact same thing I tell everybody in this company: Invest at least one or two hours into AI and rethinking your work. Just block your calendar and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact CEO Daily via Diane Brady at diane.brady@fortune.com<\/em><\/p>\nTop leadership news<\/h3>\n
Bessent grapples with Iran and bond markets<\/b><\/p>\n
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <\/span>said<\/span> the U.S. will expand sanctions against countries and companies that do business with Iran. \u201cAny nation that serves as a financial artery of a withering regime should expect to share in its isolation,\u201d Bessent wrote in the <\/span>Financial Times.<\/span><\/i> He\u2019s also taking the lead to lower long-term borrowing costs through larger bond buybacks. <\/span><\/p>\nOpenAI hires enterprise-sales veteran Dali Rajic as chief revenue officer<\/b><\/p>\n
OpenAI <\/span>named<\/span> Wiz president Dali Rajic as its new chief revenue officer as the GPT developer builds a more predictable sales operation ahead of its hotly anticipated IPO. Rajic replaces Denise Dresser, who held the role for less than a year. One former colleague told <\/span>Fortune <\/span><\/i>that Rajic is the right kind of executive OpenAI needs to catch up; another source questioned whether Rajic might \u201cburn out like so many other people do at OpenAI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nFTC pushes retailers to disclose when they use personal data to set prices<\/b><\/p>\n
The Federal Trade Commission <\/span>is seeking public comment<\/span> on a new rule that will force retailers to disclose whether they use personal data to set prices. \u201cWhen consumers see a listed price, they expect it to be the same price that everyone else sees,\u201d FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson said.<\/span><\/p>\nThe markets<\/h3>\n
S&P 500<\/b> futures are up 0.5% this morning. The last session dropped 0.3%. South Korea\u2019s <\/span>KOSPI <\/b>rose 0.7%, Japan\u2019s <\/span>Nikkei 225 <\/b>is up 0.5%, and Hong Kong\u2019s <\/span>Hang Seng Index <\/b>is flat. India\u2019s <\/span>NIFTY 50 <\/b>is up 0.2%, while the <\/span>STOXX Europe 600 <\/b>is up 0.4% in early trading. <\/span>Bitcoin <\/b>is hovering just below $80,000.<\/span><\/p>\nAround the watercooler<\/h3>\n
Target, Starbucks and Nike are writing the 2026 turnaround playbook. Here are the key lessons <\/span>by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian<\/span><\/p>\n\u2018It\u2019s hard to know exactly what the objective of DOGE was\u2019: Former IRS boss warns Elon Musk\u2019s cuts to the tax agency will be felt in years to come<\/span> by Sasha Rogelberg<\/span><\/p>\nHere\u2019s how much the $40 trillion national debt is costing you \u2014 whether you have student loans, a mortgage or Social Security<\/span> by Nick Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\nGoldman Sachs says America\u2019s energy sector will need 500,000 more workers by 2030\u2014and humanoid robots may have to step in by Emma Burleigh<\/span><\/p>\nAsia\u2019s founders are going global faster, sometimes even before they\u2019re sure what their business is, says Stripe\u2019s SEA MD by Angelica Ang<\/p>\n
Today’s edition of CEO Daily is curated and edited by Joseph Abrams, Jason Ma, Nicholas Gordon, and Lee Clifford.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n#Trivago #CEO #Johannes #Thomas #playbook #beat #disruption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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