How one person built Corteva's AI practice across a $17.4B company
rschmelzer · x · 2026-09-02
Podcast interview with Hoda Helmi of Corteva Agriscience ($17.4B revenue, 21,500 employees, 110 countries), who started as a team of one and built an enterprise AI and decision-science practice. Key ideas: the "digital decision twin" (modeling enterprise decisions, constraints and futures), starting with one consequential decision rather than a data platform, the Name-Fame-Same-Aim-Game self-introduction framework, and a franchise model for replicating small AI teams inside large organizations.
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