COCKROACH MANIFESTO FOR AI WINTER: How the Despised Outlast the Unicorn: A Business Survival Manual: 24 (The Gods Must Be Crazy!) - Couverture rigide

Madapat, Saji; Rider, Tiger; Mavericks, Epm

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1958260932 ISBN 13 : 9781958260937

Editeur : Tiger Rider, 2026

Synopsis

THE COCKROACH WILL SURVIVE THE AI NUCLEAR BLAST.*

The unicorn will not.

Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.

In May 2026, remarks by India's Chief Justice comparing some unemployed young people to cockroaches escaped the courtroom and became a generational flag. He tried to narrow the meaning the next day. The internet had already taken custody of the word.

Peter Drucker gave the corporation twenty-five years to live-not legally, but structurally and economically. The clock reached 2025 just as artificial intelligence began dissolving the assumptions that held the old hierarchy together. Now AI is arriving with five winters in its luggage: capital, margin, productivity, infrastructure, and legitimacy. The companies most certain of permanent summer are the ones dressed for it.

Saji Madapat spent three decades inside the machine: Y2K's CyberCoolie, Fortune 10 transformation rooms, Big Four consulting, enterprise performance management, and aerospace and defense-a self-described Corporate Arsonist who kept copies of the invoices. This book is his confession, his autopsy report, and his survival manual, in that order.

Inside: why the unicorn's horn is glued on. Why venture capital is weather, not entrepreneurship. Why Demo Day is sexual selection. Why the world's most famous consultancy built an AI to automate its own larvae. And why the most dangerous number in capitalism is enough.

The cockroach is not the hero. It is the design critic. Its lineage predates the dinosaurs and endured repeated mass extinctions by being the one thing no unicorn can afford to be: difficult to kill for stupid reasons.

Silicon Valley asks: How big can this become?

This book asks the harder question: How wrong can we be-and still remain alive, useful, and worth inheriting?

*The cockroach will not survive the nuclear blast. Good. Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Saji Madapat is the ultimate contrarian Unicorn-Cockroach Arsonist. His journey traces one of the most improbable arcs in modern finance-from a boatman's son in the below-sea-level paddies of Kuttanad, Kerala, to the CFO's office of a Fortune 10 "World's Most Admired Company". As a Big Four financial transformation architect, Madapat led enterprise strategies across forty-plus countries. In a Singapore boardroom, he sat in the room where manufacturing jobs were offshored to Shenzhen. When a junior analyst asked, "What happens when they don't need us anymore?", the room went silent for four seconds. That silence echoes through every chapter of this book.He did not merely observe the Unicorn-Cockroach dynamic from the outside; he helped create the conditions that made it decisive. A Clinton Global Initiative Fellow, Madapat brings a rare dual vision to Unicorn-Cockroach analysis: the deployment literacy of someone who has read supply chains across forty nations, and the narrative literacy of someone who spent decades inside the financial complex that obscures them. He is the author of over a dozen bestselling books and a Kala Sreshta laureate in ancient Theyyam ritual traditions, where a human performer is painted into a deity through trance and fire. That work supplied the long horizon behind the Fifty-Year Quarter; his professional life supplied the confession behind the Corporate Arsonist. He lives on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, still reading the undercurrent between what institutions report and what reality quietly invoices.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tiger Rider
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1958260932
• ISBN 13: 9781958260937
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Nombre de pages: 134
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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