“If you aren’t using AI and you’re a CEO, what are you doing?” Rogier told Fortune. “You are holding yourself back. You’re like, ‘I only want to be 80% as productive as I can be.’”
By his count, being a “heavy user” of the technology has made him so efficient he’s reclaimed the equivalent of the entire workday, time he now funnels into the parts of the business that demand his leadership the most.
With so many different AI tools on the market, it’s impossible to just use one and be a time maximizer. Instead, Rogier’s “AI CEO Stack” consists of over half a dozen LLMs.
Rogier hasn’t been alone in his embrace of AI. CEOs, especially in the tech sector, see daily AI usage as table stakes for staying competitive.
With AI only improving with time, these CEOs have at a minimum set an example of how technology can be integrated throughout their work—and likely expect their employees to do the same.