Podcast excerpt·MON, 31 AUG 2026 · 12:51:07–12:53:21 SAST
A short excerpt from BNC#9 | Hersov Q&A: Joburg's mafia problem and Zille's odds; BEE and EWC; corporate silence; AI bets on BizNews Radio. Watermarked for fair-dealing attribution, free to share.
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So than any young generation in the history of the world. Because of AI. Do you know the most powerful thing about AI? You don't need to code. You don't need to program. You just need to speak English. That's it. It's gone from me telling my kids eight years ago, you've got to do coding, it's the future of the world, to now knowing what, now saying to my 12-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter, you
Better have a business launched by the end of the year because you can do it. Do you know what a prompt is on AI? You speak to it or write. I'll give you an example. And I did this, try it. What ice cream flavors have never been tried in South Africa that might be popular to South African ice cream lovers?
It the most unbelievable bukhoo and walnut swirl marula and peach cream, non-alcoholic. There were 10 of the most delicious, there wasn't built on there was 10 of the most delicious flavors. And I thought, I'd try all of those. Why don't I launch an ice? And I said, no, no, the last thing I need to do is launch an ice cream business. But why shouldn't young people put in that prompt and then ask AI, please?
Please put a business plan together. Boom. Please develop a marketing plan. Boom. Please tell me how much money I should raise for it. Boom. Please find me three locations of an appropriate size in Durban that are available for me to rent at the right price and negotiate the rent for me. Please tell me the people I need to hire to run the things. Please send them an employment contract. You could have a business up and running in finance.
One person in a room age 15. Young people have never had it so good. But then they have to execute. I know, but AI does 95% of that. Yeah, but then it's the execution. Exactly. You don't have to go to lawyers and get them to put together contracts because it comes through. You don't have to go to accountants. A lot of people in between are going to have to start getting entrepreneurial in that case. So thank you, Rob. They're going to be.
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