My Verdict On The Best Business To Start In 2025.
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So it is true that the world of AI will keep on affecting jobs in the near future. But let's talk a little bit about the far future — as in 10 years from now.
A friend of mine asked me what would be the best business to start in such an AI age. Given that I work in consultancy and that I'm exposed to a ton of diverse startups and major companies, I thought I'd share my input in this matter.
Firstly, before even starting to talk about this, it goes without saying that there's no recipe for business success. You can start a cereal company and make millions in revenue. You can create a very advanced AI company and make millions in losses, which is very common amongst AI startups these days.
It's all about the executional skills, and the market. It's kind of a dynamic equation. But there are things that you could work on, which would make it more of a safer equation per se. This could make most of the equation variables static and just a few dynamics that you can't really control.
Finding AI-Resistant Industries
Let's chitchat about the best business to start in 2025. I've said this before in previous articles, but my most successful clients are ones who work in extremely boring businesses. And one particular boring business that I've talked about before that I believe is the safest way to move forward is agriculture. Let me elaborate.
If you're working in customer service, for instance, there is a high chance that artificial intelligence agents would replace your job at its core. And that happened with cases, I think it was Klarna, that replaced their whole customer support team with bots. And the results were actually quite good for the AI-team. So there are things that could be replaced at its core.
Now, that doesn't mean that the job of customer support is eradicated, but instead of hiring a thousand people to manage a team of customer support, companies will now hire 50 or 100. So that they would be able to utilize AI bots to actually help the customers in an efficient way. What does that mean for the other 900 customer support agents who used to work there? Well, it most probably means they're going to be laid off and they're going to have to find something else to work on.
I am not a pessimist, but the reality of the upcoming days with AI is that layoffs are going to increase and people finding jobs won't be as easy as it is nowadays, even though nowadays people say it's really not that easy in many places in the world.
You're going to have to qualify better than an AI tool if your job is related to software, or an AI humanoid robot if it's something in the outside world like construction.
Always ask yourself, can your job at its core right now or in the near future be replaced, or the majority of it is replaced by AI tools? If the answer is yes, then you ought to think twice about tomorrow.
When I say agriculture, for example, yes, humanoid robots are going to be working in the field. Yes, AI tools are going to optimize the crop yields. But all of that does not affect or change the fact that you are going to be eating tomatoes.
You're a human being and biology doesn't change in this sense. AI tools are not going to reinvent food from scratch. Food already exists. They might come up with some biological alternative, but it will probably come from plants as well.
When it comes to planting and farming, this is a core industry that is not easily affected, at least in the upcoming 10 years.
Let's take a counterexample of transportation. Transportation is the easiest thing to prove this point. It's an industry that is already being disrupted, and it's going to be majorly disrupted in the upcoming 15 years. I personally do not expect to find the job of a taxi driver or an Uber driver existing in this world because of full self-driving.
There are ethical dilemmas with full self-driving, but these are just obstacles in the short term. In the long term, this doesn't stand a chance. And it won't make sense for a human being to drive a car. You would probably open the doors of your Uber, see a human being, and just feel unsafe. Why is a human being driving this car? I don't feel safe. I want full self-driving to be on.
The Best Steps to Start a Business in the Current Age
So before I wrap up, let me tell you how to exactly start, based on my consultancy experience, a business in this current age.
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