E20: AI Wins Math Gold: The 2-Hour Call That Changed Everything – Lessons for CEOs

The Call That Changed Everything: A MedTech CEO Realizes the AI Revolution

When OpenAI's AI won gold at the International Math Olympiad, a shocked MedTech executive called me. What followed were 2 intense coaching hours about the future of his billion-dollar company.

Top 5 Learnings for Executives:

🎯 Learning 1: It Was Predictable The improvement from 13% (2023) to gold (2025) followed a clear exponential trend. What seems impossible today will be standard in 18 months.

🚀 Learning 2: Test-Time Compute Changes Everything AI now "thinks" for hours about problems. This enables solutions to complex business challenges that were previously impossible.

💡 Learning 3: 5 Game-Changing Use Cases Molecule design with proofs, regulatory intelligence, supply chain 2.0, personalized medicine algorithms, mathematical R&D optimization.

⚠️ Learning 4: DACH Region Is Sleeping Through the Revolution Only 38% of German SMEs actively use AI. Productivity gap to USA: 24%. Time to wake up!

🎬 Learning 5: The Next 6 Months Decide Everything GPT-5 is coming. The IMO model will be available in 6 months. Those who don't act now will be left behind.

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