Every few months, Silent Eight’s CEO Martin Markiewicz and CMO Vlada Grebenykova sit down for a wide-ranging discussion revolving around where the market is heading. While the pair usually walk away with a notebook full of varying details to fact-check, a recent conversation kept arriving at the same answer from every direction. Covering three distinct topics – where AI is heading, what the next trillion-dollar company might look like, and how enterprise trust actually gets built – Martin and Vlada’s observations returned to the same idea, said three different ways: merit is compounding faster than it ever has, and pedigree is compounding slower.