Apollo data shows the Magnificent Seven widening their revenue-per-employee lead over the S&P 493 between 2019 and 2026, highlighting the growing productivity gap between Big Tech and the broader market.
Tech companies are paying big money to people with AI skills because they know how to make it work well. Giving a finance bro Copilot won’t amount to more than him automating email replies. But some one building out a fully automated CI/CD pipeline that deploys tens of thousands of instances globally for a SaaS company instead paying a team to maintain is where they get their ROI with AI. Backing that with crazy compute power allows them to do it faster.
Tech companies are paying big money to people with AI skills because they know how to make it work well. Giving a finance bro Copilot won’t amount to more than him automating email replies. But some one building out a fully automated CI/CD pipeline that deploys tens of thousands of instances globally for a SaaS company instead paying a team to maintain is where they get their ROI with AI. Backing that with crazy compute power allows them to do it faster.