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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. 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Sep 20, 2026 11:00 AM UTC  Courtesy Circle  by [Ayesha Javed](https://time.com/author/ayesha-javed/)  ## Ayesha Javed Javed is an editorial director at TIME, based in the London bureau. Sep 20, 2026 11:00 AM UTC Circle is known to many as the issuer of the $74 billion digital currency USD Coin, or USDC. But co-founder and CEO [Jeremy Allaire](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/jeremy-allaire/) believes the company’s latest launch may be the “most [consequential](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/15/circle-debuts-arc-blockchain-which-jeremy-allaire-calls-more-consequential-than-usdc) major platform launch” in its history. “Arc is built from the ground up for what the financial system needs: fees paid in dollars, settlement that is final in under a second, confidentiality with compliance built in, and operators that boards and regulators can trust,” Allaire wrote in a recent email. Allaire likens the Arc blockchain and full-stack platform, launched on Sept. 16, to an Android operating system for the global economy, facilitating payments, lending, trading, and even, one day, commerce between AI agents. “Humans tolerated money that sleeps on weekends; machines will not,” he says. The platform has more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders including global banks, asset management firms, payment networks, exchanges, and AI platforms. Its founding validators include BlackRock, Standard Chartered, Mastercard, Visa and Intercontinental Exchange. Allaire, who co-founded Circle 13 years ago, is a serial entrepreneur. Before his work on [stablecoins](https://time.com/7274685/what-are-best-stablecoins-crypto/), he founded cloud-based online video platform Brightcove, and before that, software company Allaire Corporation with his brother, which was acquired by Macromedia in the early aughts. He spoke with TIME in June, ahead of the launch of Arc. **How are you thinking about the different regulatory environments in all the markets that you're operating in?** Blockchain networks are just technology services. They're soft, open software protocols that run on the internet. They're general purpose computers, and so general purpose computers and network protocols are themselves not regulated activities. It's what people do on top of it. It's a little bit like the internet itself. The internet is unregulated, but the activities on the internet become regulated, whether it's privacy, data, or financial activity. But one of the biggest challenges of actually \[having\] what we think of as the core of the financial system run on public internet infrastructure like this, has been that the major regulators have had concerns about \[whether\] this infrastructure \[is\] too decentralized, where it's a bunch of unknown actors and therefore, even though it's meant to be trustless, it's sort of not trustworthy, or you could have the commingling of bad actors and good actors. The other is slightly more technical, but important, which is: central banks, for example, care about that. When a transaction happens, it's a final transaction, and the way a lot of these networks have worked in the past is there's what’s called probabilistic finality. And so if you're building a system where I bought or sold a stock or I made a transfer of value from one point to another point, you need to know that it actually happened. That has to be final. So regulators have a framework for that that is applied to the infrastructure that runs the existing financial system, and what we've done with Arc is we've designed Arc specifically to meet those standards, so that from a central bank perspective, or from the \[perspectives of the\] regulators that oversee, for example, the guts of the stock market, essentially think of it as the service guarantees that are required in the traditional financial system. So, in that sense, we do think about the regulatory environment. Does this technology stand up to the demands of that? Even though it's a general purpose technology that can be used for thousands of different use cases, it needs to stand up to that scrutiny, and so, in that way, it's not so much we're worried about people regulating Arc; it's more \[for\] Arc and the people who want to use Arc, can it meet the regulatory expectations? **What does this mean for the future of trading desks, and how will that look in the future? Presumably, fewer people, more agents?** There's several things all happening. One is getting this general purpose economic infrastructure out there, where machine software can deploy and run and intermediate value all programmatically. The second is taking existing financial contracts, and digitizing those onto these networks—tokenization. An equity is a contract. It conveys governance. It conveys a waterfall of economic participation. Taking the financial contract itself and the instrument itself, and digitizing those fully, that whole process of tokenization is going to take years, but it's already begun. Once that happens, then all of these become themselves programmable. Just like we have with things like USDC, we now have programmable money, and that's really powerful. The second piece is basically the development of agentic infrastructure. There's the development of the agentic infrastructure from an AI platform perspective, and then there's this convergence of agentic infrastructure and economic infrastructure. I call it the agentic economy, and this convergence of those will, I believe, completely reconstitute the way every firm in the world operates. Yes, the job of trading, essentially will be increasingly driven by AI agents, and whether they're operating on behalf of a treasurer in a company, they're operating on behalf of a household, or they're operating on behalf of a financial institution or a financial intermediary, a trading firm, etc. All of these will increasingly be executed agentically, and that's happening quite fast. Things are happening on exponentials, and it's very hard for humans to think in exponentials. **You have said that you consider Circle to be in the very early stages of what it could be, even though you are already a very big business. Where do you see the future of Circle going?** When I founded the company, I was thinking about it over a multi-decade timeframe, and we're broadly a decade into this, and the first thing that we wanted to achieve was this idea of programmable money, open protocols for dollar digital currency on the internet, and getting that into a place where it could scale. It took around 10 years or so to get there. We're now there, but the adoption of that is still at the very start. So there's $360 billion of stablecoin money in circulation. There's a lot of transaction volume, but if you look at the total supply of electronic money in the world, roughly $120 trillion of electronic money in the world, there's an enormous amount of growth to happen, and I believe that this kind of money is a superior form of money and will eat into the electronic money base over time. It's at the front end of penetrating all these different areas of markets and commerce and the financial system. At the same time, I have a bigger thesis, which is these economic operating systems that are emerging, whether it would be like the mobile operating systems or the cloud platforms, they're emergent environments that will take 10 or 15 years to really mature. But what they portend is a world where more and more of what a corporation is will become transformed into being pure software—and that's not like we have SaaS applications or software that we interact with. The nature of the firm itself will become software, the economic activity of the firm—so that's the money, the contracts, the governance that is there, the coordination mechanisms that are part of the firm—will become run by software machines, and then the actual work of the firm, which for many companies is basically cognitive work, will be decomposed into agentic work, and will get reconstituted as agentic infrastructure with a mix of AI and humans, all of this being run on these new operating systems. That's a transformation of the very basis of the economic system, it's a transformation in the nature of the firm. It's a transformation in the way economic coordination and governance and contracts and other things work, and I think we're at the very beginning of that. I view Circle's opportunity as being a company that provides the platforms to help make that happen, that provides the infrastructure to the agentic economy that builds and issues money for that system, and that builds applications that support that change. So, we're going from, “we did the digital dollar” to “let's build the comprehensive platforms to think about this complete upgrade to the economic system that's going to take place over 10 or 15 years.” **How are your efforts around building quantum resilience going? Has AI overtaken those concerns?** There's the countdown to quantum, sort of like [Y2K](https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/). It's very clear quantum is coming, and for us there's two things that we have to be thinking about. One is we have an existing financial infrastructure which runs on 35 different blockchain networks, which is USDC, and there's money issued on all of these, and those networks themselves are going to be vulnerable to quantum. So we have to track all the existing infrastructure and the progress that they're making, and if they're not making progress, we have to think about how do we help those people safely get somewhere else. The other is, we're building de novo—from scratch—new infrastructure, and we have the benefit of building that new infrastructure at a moment in time where post-quantum cryptography is beginning to be available, and so I think we're going to be the very first public blockchain network with Arc that has post-quantum features from day one when we launch, and so that's a piece of the puzzle. And then there's a whole roadmap for every layer of what we do in this infrastructure to be post-quantum prepared. My view is this is coming. AI may accelerate the timeline to quantum coming, because AI is just assisting with advancements in technology design in general. So it may continue to solve essentially scientific problems that are needed to solve quantum. So in some ways, AI accelerates the need to figure this out, but we do have the benefit of building now in a moment where there has been enough progress and an understanding of what that first wave of quantum might look like. That kind of quantum cryptography is something that we can apply in our own infrastructure. **You're a serial entrepreneur. What skills do you think are required to be a successful founder?** There are many pathways to being successful as a founder and an entrepreneur, but I'll describe what I've experienced at least in my in my realm. There are some founders who are, let's just say, really difficult, and who drive people extremely hard and have huge success, and then there are founders that are demanding, but also operate with more human compassion. So I'm more of the latter. What I'd say is, it’s critical that founders have to really have deep conviction about what it is that they're trying to accomplish, a belief of some significant change that you can bring to the world—and it doesn't have to all be rosy sunshine. Without that core, it's very difficult to be successful because the reality is that the odds are so against you. One of the hardest parts of being a founder is you're envisioning something that doesn't exist, and so inherently the world is skeptical. Inherently you're going to be told over and over again why you're wrong, why it's not going to work, why the existing world already solves the problem. It's endless. And if you go back and read through media coverage of Circle from 13 years, you'll see for probably about 10 years it was all skepticism, and still. And so, whether it's hiring people, retaining people, people have to feel like they believe in the founder, the mission, and even when you're slapped in the face or you have a huge setback and a huge failure—which you're going to—you're going to have endless failures. Failures happen every day; they happen every month. There's small scale failures and there's large scale failures. You have to have that perseverance. **Are there things that you've learned about leadership over the course of your career that you come back to?** There are a variety of things. I believe in openness and transparency. I believe it's really important for everyone to understand what the strategy is, and communicate and overcommunicate about those things. That openness and transparency is extremely critical during the early stages of a business as well, and that includes total transparency about your financial circumstances. I've learned a lot from a talent perspective. There are phases that you go through in terms of of scaling, and the people who are willing to be joining you when you found a company are not necessarily the people who are going to be the right people for leading during the bigger commercialization phase, and those may not be the right people for being a public company. There's a constant organizational evolution. There's lots of smaller lessons like hire slow, fire fast. It's like a motto I have. When I was a young entrepreneur in my 20s, I was very skeptical about the importance of culture and values. That has really evolved for me a lot and so I really got religious about mission, values, culture, and overcommunicating about it, interviewing for it, performance managing around it, making it central because a company is an organism, and you want a healthy organism. Results really comes from that. **There's a lot of consternation about what AI means for young people entering the workforce. What would your advice be to someone early career in the age of AI?** I'll give you a real-world example. I have two sons who both graduated college in the last two years, and they're entering the workforce. One of my sons studied finance and marketing, and he wanted to get into business development. He went to a startup, and he got a job but \[became\] frustrated. But he got AI-pilled in January of this year, and he does not have a background in technology in any explicit way, but he just poured himself into learning these agentic systems, and he came to me and he said, "I'm going to quit my job and I want to master these skills. I want to build things. I want to create things.” I'm like, “OK, go do that.” And it is essentially my advice for anyone who is at any stage in their career, but I'll say for young people who are coming in, the opportunity right now is incredible. If you're a generally good thinker, you can become a master of literally hundreds of different domains, and you can learn how to create and orchestrate and build things that it was impossible to do before, and so it's one of the greatest periods ever in human history for individuals and individual agency, and that's why we're seeing a huge surge in solo founders. That's why we're actually seeing record numbers of new business creation that are happening in the U.S. Agents give agency. So, my recommendation is that people should dive in whatever their domain interest is and master these tools, because it effectively is going to give you superpowers. And that’s the exact message I've given every single employee at Circle. I’ve said everyone's jobs are going to be transformed. We are going to reconstitute this company. We're going to reorganize this company around the capabilities of agentic \[AI\], and it's the greatest career opportunity you're ever going to have. 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