The world doesn’t need more data.

It needs better decisions.

For more than two decades I’ve been building companies, products and go-to-market organizations around one simple belief: technology only matters when it helps people make smarter decisions.

I’ve spent my career at the intersection of entrepreneurship, data, analytics and artificial intelligence—building startups, scaling global software companies, raising capital, leading high-growth organizations and helping thousands of enterprises transform how they use information.

Today, we’re entering the most exciting technology shift of our generation.

AI is no longer just another software category. It’s becoming a new operating model for business.

Agentic AI, intelligent automation, decision intelligence and human-AI collaboration are fundamentally changing how companies operate, compete and innovate. The winners won’t simply adopt AI—they’ll redesign their organizations around it.

That’s what fascinates me.

DataShark exists because I wanted a place to think out loud.

Not to chase headlines or predict the next buzzword, but to explore what actually matters: how leaders build companies, products and cultures that thrive in an AI-first world.

Here you’ll find my perspectives on:

• AI, Data and Analytics
• Agentic AI and Intelligent Enterprises
• Product Strategy and Go-to-Market Leadership
• Entrepreneurship and Company Building
• Innovation, Leadership and Organizational Scale
• The future of enterprise software

Everything I write is grounded in real experience—from founding companies, leading executive teams, working with global enterprises, navigating hyper-growth, raising investment, serving on boards and learning from both successes and failures.

I don’t believe AI will replace great leaders.

I believe it will amplify them.

The future belongs to people who combine technology with curiosity, business context with data, and strategy with execution.

My goal is simple:

To help entrepreneurs, executives, builders and innovators think more clearly about where technology is heading—and how to build companies that matter because of it.

If one article changes the way you think about AI, helps you build a better company, or inspires your next big idea, then DataShark has accomplished exactly what it was created to do.

Welcome aboard.

— Omri Kohl