Your Team's Already Afraid of AI. Now What? with Paco Farias

About this episode

Your team is already afraid of AI — and "we're using ChatGPT" is usually the cover story. Jonathan Green talks with Paco Farias (Co-Founder at Glinx; formerly GE, Amazon, and Snap) about where AI resistance actually lives, why so many splashy rollouts are dead in six months, why token bills are about to rival payroll, and what "AI native" actually requires: a reboot of the human operating system, not a new logo. Key Takeaways: • Culture starts and ends with founders and CEOs. If leadership does not practice AI, pamphlets and all-hands decks will not produce adoption. • The earliest sign of quiet resistance is "I use ChatGPT every day" — prompting is step zero, not adoption. Fear (conscious or not) keeps teams there. • Boards rush the hype to signal to markets, then quietly kill the program six months later because they treated AI like a resource-allocation problem instead of a change-management one. • Token spend is the next people-budget. AWS leaked $500 million in tokens in a month. Unlike salaries, token costs are a black box that can double mid-project. • "AI native" is not a branding decision. It is teaching people that AI is an enabler, not the enemy — plus the technical lay