{"id":2855,"date":"2026-07-05T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:12:07","slug":"shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-says-if-he-were-25-today-hed-chase-these-two-booming-opportunities-in-the-world-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary says if he were 25 today, he\u2019d chase these two booming opportunities in the world of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <em>Shark Tank <\/em>star and chairman of O\u2019Leary Ventures said in a video earlier this year that if he were a 20-something again, he would focus on the business that is most booming right now: artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2853\">The CEO who vowed to \u2018fire anyone who doesn\u2019t use AI\u2019 admits that the technology can\u2019t replace her executive assistant as the role evolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think AI growth is going to be exponential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But in the vast AI industry, O\u2019Leary said he would focus on either helping small businesses implement AI tools or developing data centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rather than go straight for the corporate giants, O\u2019Leary said he would first try to narrow his focus to helping businesses with fewer than 500 employees implement AI. These 36 million small businesses make up just under half of the U.S. GDP, according to the Small Business Administration\u2014and while they likely want to use AI, they may not be as quick to adapt as large corporations.<\/p>\n<p>This opens up an opportunity for self-starters to help businesses get better control of their data and set up systems to analyze it with AI, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a massive amount of people wanting to use it that don\u2019t know how to and they\u2019re willing to pay to solve that pain point,\u201d O\u2019Leary said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was careful to draw a distinction, though, from traditional consulting, framing the opportunity as \u201cimplementation and execution.\u201d O\u2019Leary, who is an Executive Fellow at Harvard for the 2025-2026 academic year, previously told <em>Fortune<\/em> he warns his MBA students against pursuing consulting, describing the career as a \u201cslow drift into mediocrity.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<h2>AI\u2019s real estate<\/h2>\n<p>O\u2019Leary\u2019s second opportunity, data center development, may take more money and a little more legwork, but is just as ripe with opportunity.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest pain point in AI is data centers,\u201d O\u2019Leary said. \u201cThat\u2019s real-estate development.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2851\">Investment firm\u2019s cofounder sues after being fired for neglecting the in-person work mandate he signed, saying it applies to employees not owners<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is a mismatch today when it comes to the supply and demand in AI infrastructure, he noted. Only about 5 gigawatts of data center capacity is currently under construction, while there is demand for much more.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe demand is insatiable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Leary, for his part, has leveraged his own real estate experience into a data center development venture. He has already backed the development of a giant $70 billion data center industrial park capable of delivering 7.5 gigawatts of computing power in Alberta, Canada, though the project has faced scrutiny over its delayed timeline. In Utah, he has also backed a $100 billion data center project in Utah that has faced scrutiny of its own for its potential effects on local residents.<\/p>\n<p>The data may be on O\u2019Leary\u2019s side when it comes to data centers. Goldman Sachs Research estimates the increasing use of AI will skyrocket data center power demand by 165% by the end of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have poured billions into data centers, with no end in sight, and Lisa Shallet, chief investment officer for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said in a note last year that hyperscalers\u2019 capital expenditures on data centers and related items was nearing $400 billion annually.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For O\u2019Leary, both opportunities in AI share a key similarity: While they may not be the most attractive corner of AI, both opportunities are involved with creating the foundation that the future AI economy needs to function.<\/p>\n<p>While helping a small business deploy AI tools or securing land for a data center facility might not make for a thrilling <em>Shark Tank<\/em> pitch, in O\u2019Leary\u2019s mind, both opportunities could make some 25-year-olds very rich.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2849\">The Trump administration will use the same company that tried to renovate the Reflecting Pool to repair it \u2014 \u2018because they did a fantastic job\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story originally appeared on Fortune.com on March 6, 2026<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>More on entrepreneurship<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Portnoy quit an $80K sales job to start Barstool\u2014he hand-delivered papers in a secondhand van while living with his girlfriend\u2019s mom for 6 years<\/li>\n<li>This entrepreneurial couple cashed out their 401(k)s and sold a $126 million company\u2014now they run a U.K. soccer team<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I have nothing to lose\u2019: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is \u2018the stupidest thing\u2019 holding you back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Leary says young entrepreneurs shouldn&#8217;t chase flashy AI, they should instead try to build its backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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