Dave Elkington
CEO of Atonom and author of Autonomous, a newsletter about AI, digital labor, and the transition from software tools to autonomous work.
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Published work
- Accenture Grew $17B, Anthropic Spent $518B, OpenAI is Trying to Lock us In
- We Canceled Claude, Deel Added $140M Without Hiring, and Meta Added $158B
- Salesforce Went Down at Dreamforce, HubSpot’s CRM Now Updates Itself, Apple Plans to Charge for Siri
- Meta Added $100B, Salesforce Paying 67x, and TIME Selling Ads to AI
- Canva Lost $11B, Clay Hit $7B, 37% of HR Leaders Prefer AI to Gen Z
- Replit Going 50% Sales, Salesforce Debunking the AI PLG Thesis, and HubSpot Launching a $1 CRM
- Atlassian's Up $10B, Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs, 23% of Youth Confide in AI
- JPMorgan Calls SaaSpocalypse Overblown, Salesforce Adds $6.6B, Humans Become a Rounding Error
- AI Got 80% Cheaper, SpaceX Lost $210B, and Google’s Chief Scientist Walked
- Google Put AI in 43% of Searches, Meta Lost $150B, and Microsoft Added $480B
- Monday Cut 620 People, Stripe May Pay $10B to Catch Up, and Americans Started 5.6M Businesses
- IBM Lost $67B to AI, Anthropic Built a $1.5B Consulting Firm, and Apple Took the Talent War to Court
- Meta Made Intelligence Cheap, HubSpot Got Caught, and Zoom Bought a Lifeline
- HubSpot Selling Your Data, Meta Made $98B Overnight, and Ford Fired the Wrong People
- Musk Lost $317B, Seoul Stalled the Market, and Google's Best Walked Out
- Belief Beat $2.7B and the US Government Rewrote Platform Rules
- JPMorgan Made AI Impossible to Defund
- Dell Added $55B, and SaaS Just Had Its Best Month Since 2001
- OpenAI, Meta, Cisco, and Amazon Dismantled the Software Playbook
- Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Meta Just Carved Up the Future
- Cisco’s 15% Stock Jump and the End of Headcount
- Tabular Foundation Models and the $1.1B Move to Own the Record
- NVIDIA’s $5 Trillion Signal and the End of the Software License
- The Battle for the Interface: Why Distribution is the New Moat
- Why Google, Apple, and Salesforce Are Burning Foundations
- Meta’s $113B Flex and the Brutal End of Human Middleware
- Human-to-Compute Arbitrage: Why the "Log In" Button is Dead
- The Google "DeepSeek Moment" and the Decline of the Incumbents
- The Entire Software Industry is in FULL reset mode.
- Atlassian and Adobe Learned the Hard Way
- How the Autonomous Redesign Actually Happens
- AI is Forcing a Redesign
- Software has Stop Needing Humans... Mostly
- Software Stopped Earning Its Keep
- AI Is Decentralizing Authority
- AI Isn't Changing What Matters
- Google Just Changed the Rules of the AI Race
- The Gap Between Adoption and Ownership
- The Outcome Economy
- The New Gilded Age of AI
- The Separation of Work and Labor
- The End of Fake Work
- Adapting to the New Work Model
- The Quiet Divide in AI
- The Week AI Outgrew Everything