Billionaire Mark Cuban has advice for his two children who are job hunting: Prioritize small companies, not large corporations.

Not only could the advice be useful to his children, it could help those facing the entry-level job market in the age of AI. The reason why he says small companies are better: Your skills are more essential.

At large corporations, AI skills can end up feeling “somewhat extraneous,” the former Dallas Mavericks owner and investor told CNBC Make It. If you are a recent graduate who knows how to use AI, the company’s established IT teams probably already do as well.

By comparison, small to medium-sized companies, “don’t have that depth,” he said.

“[Small-to-medium-sized companies] are typically entrepreneurially driven and don’t have the flexibility to have people

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