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EVERYONE IS IN R&D

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Ethan Mollick life strip. 1998: founds eMeta. 2010: Wharton desk. Nov 2022: ChatGPT enters his classroom. One Useful Thing becomes an AI field log. Apr 2024: Co-Intelligence with a robot. Lookout finale: robot dog Buddy, school bus, a valley where everyone experiments — EVERYONE IS IN R&D.
Ethan Mollick built a payments startup before he ever studied startups, took a Wharton desk to bust startup myths, then turned his classroom into an AI lab — experiments, a field-log newsletter, a book on treating the machine like a coworker. His dream: everyone is in R&D.Zimbo for AI News Page
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