Latest / 1 to 100 / E55: AI Native Teams with Jacob Posel from HQ
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- 0:00Messaging with Jack with course like that happened.
- 0:01You know, I like, I went out, I went out one night and I've left
- 0:07my backpack at someone's house. A friend of mine called Jack.
- 0:11And then I woke up the next morning super hungover and I was
- 0:13like, shit, my backpacks in at my friend's house called Jack.
- 0:17So I text him and I was like yo like I need to pick up my
- 0:20backpack and he wasn't answering me.
- 0:22So I like call him he like wasn't answering.
- 0:23So I end up like calling his girlfriend and then getting my
- 0:25backpack. And then like 3 hours later Jack
- 0:28sends me a video of a baby like a little baby.
- 0:30And I was like I was like what the fuck?
- 0:32Like why is he sending me? Like why is my friend sending me
- 0:35a video of a baby? And then I like I just didn't I
- 0:38didn't understand at all. And Jack was like, I just had a
- 0:41kid, so I'm showing you my baby. And I was like, OK, like I just
- 0:45said like, OK, like I just didn't understand.
- 0:48And then like, oh, like I think like a month later I go and I
- 0:52actually go to fret message my friend Jack again.
- 0:55And I realized that I had messaged the wrong Jack.
- 0:57And I had messaged this Jack about his like real baby.
- 1:00And I just felt terrible. He had like just had a child and
- 1:03sent me a video. And my reaction was just like,
- 1:05OK, like I guess I felt. I remember this exchange.
- 1:10Yeah, I didn't. I didn't realize that you
- 1:11thought you were messaging a different Jack.
- 1:13That's fine. Yeah, anyway, so I'm so
- 1:15embarrassed about that. Nah.
- 1:16Don't be embarrassed, no hard FL.
- 1:18Jacob, you're finally building SAS for everyone for.
- 1:21Everyone I am. For everyone.
- 1:23Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have a small town
- 1:26problem as they say. No, HQ fortunately works for
- 1:29everyone, for every type of business, which is really nice.
- 1:31Yeah, Tell. Tell us about it cuz I I so I
- 1:33I've learned not that much, but I didn't realize you were I
- 1:37thought this was just you building it.
- 1:38I didn't realize you had to partners in this as well or I I
- 1:41don't even know that structure. But anyway, I'd love to learn
- 1:43more about all of it the. Story is actually pretty cool
- 1:45about how I, how I got, how I like joined and got involved
- 1:48with the team. So I met Corey, Corey Epstein
- 1:51about a year ago actually in I was in Richard's office and we
- 1:56had a call and I remember it like vividly because I did, it
- 1:58was like one of my first calls when I got to San Francisco.
- 2:00I did it out in the hallway. Anyway, he like showed me this
- 2:03product that he was building called Indigo and it was like
- 2:07very ahead of its time, but it was like at a point where where
- 2:12AI hadn't like quite caught up to what they wanted to build.
- 2:14It was like this personal AI that lives on top of your
- 2:16computer and just allows and just like it helps you do work
- 2:19embedded directly into it was like it was very cool design
- 2:21very well and I was pretty impressed.
- 2:23But like they just AI hadn't caught up yet.
- 2:27But like Corey was Corey's like a visionary.
- 2:29He like, he's exceptionally smart and good at understanding
- 2:33where AI goes, where AI is going.
- 2:37And I could like tell that pretty early on.
- 2:38Anyway, him and I like went through Twitter, went back and
- 2:40forth over the years. Eventually he reached out to me
- 2:42and he was like, you should try a new product.
- 2:44We'll try this new tool that we've built internally.
- 2:46It was just started out as this internal tool called HQ, which
- 2:50Corey runs live recover Voyage like and Indigo.
- 2:54So he has to operate at a super high level of efficiency.
- 2:57And so it was this tool that allowed him to use AI, use AI
- 3:00more effectively. And anyway, he, he was, he on
- 3:03boarded me onto it and I was like, holy shit, this is really
- 3:05cool. Like I thought I was a good AI
- 3:07user, but it made me so much more effective as like a
- 3:10personal tool, right? It was like for me to be better
- 3:12at AI and I was highly incentivized to help make this
- 3:15product better because it was helping me in my work, in my
- 3:17consulting work, I was working with multiple companies,
- 3:20building things for them. And so I was incentivized to
- 3:22help with the product. So I got pretty close to the
- 3:25team, started working with them more directly.
- 3:27I was consulting at the same time.
- 3:29And the number one issue I was seeing across all these
- 3:30businesses was it's just really hard to get team adoption of AI.
- 3:34Like all these products are inherently designed to work
- 3:38single use. Like there is some organization
- 3:40sharing, but it's not robust and it's not a focus.
- 3:42So everyone was just working in silos, everyone was quite,
- 3:46everyone was just repeating work.
- 3:48People weren't kind of moving in the same direction, working in
- 3:50the same place. And HQ at the same time was
- 3:53building up all the context of my business.
- 3:54Like inherently the product what becomes better as you use it
- 3:57more because it builds up context on how you work and how
- 4:01you operate. So I pitched the team.
- 4:03I was like, you guys should just build a version of HQ for
- 4:06multiple people for like a team version of HQ where you can,
- 4:10where people can use it. It makes them better, more
- 4:11effective, but you share these capabilities and solves a real
- 4:14problem for the businesses. And they, they basically agreed
- 4:19and asked if I wanted to ask if I wanted to join the company.
- 4:22So I was like, yeah, I was like, I'm already, I really want this
- 4:25to be better and I'm already going to be incentivized to make
- 4:27this better. So I was like, yeah.
- 4:29So at the same time, Ramp launched and internally like
- 4:33we're an article about this internal product they built
- 4:35called Glass. And that was really cool for
- 4:37that was really great for us because it validated it and the,
- 4:39and like the market meaning like Twitter really liked it.
- 4:42And so I tweeted like, we built Ramp Glass for everyone and I
- 4:47just got insane demand. And so I've like pushed the
- 4:50team. I was like less fucking like, we
- 4:51have to, we have to get this to Mark, we have to push this out.
- 4:53And we ended up building something really cool.
- 4:55And then we launched it about two days ago.
- 4:59And yeah, does that. I don't even remember what the
- 5:01original question was but I just yapped about it for like 5
- 5:03minutes. No, that was it.
- 5:04Just wanted to get the context we had, yeah.
- 5:07So wait, what do we do? I mean, I get the the general
- 5:10idea that, you know, it doesn't it brings teams together to work
- 5:15more collaboratively with AI. But like, was it?
- 5:18Was it actually do? It's at its core a cloud based
- 5:21file system that you interact with that you use when you use a
- 5:25tool like Cloud Code or codecs or Open code or any kind of
- 5:28agent harness. It syncs files to the cloud and
- 5:32helps you resolve conflicts. So it abstracts away Git level
- 5:35complexity, GitHub level complexity for for knowledge
- 5:39users. And then it has additional
- 5:41features built on top to actually work for bigger
- 5:43businesses. So it has access control built
- 5:46into the file system so you can control who sees what.
- 5:49It has secret sharing because no skill like most skills interact
- 5:53with external external services. So it has secure encrypted
- 5:57secret sharing. And then it also has app
- 5:59deployment, so easily deploy applications from directly
- 6:02inside of HQ. It's really a super simple
- 6:04level, super simple level, super simple thing like either go to
- 6:06market team, they all have built their own separate junkie tools
- 6:10for how they automate outbound like a super common problem.
- 6:14This allows them to just create one all inside of HQ.
- 6:17They all interact with the same thing.
- 6:19Not only do we have do we know what they're interacting with?
- 6:21But it gets better as they use it because they're all
- 6:23compounding on top of the same skills and knowledge systems.
- 6:25So. Jacob, I mean, you and I know
- 6:27each other, but people listening may not know that you and I know
- 6:30each other. But when I first heard that you
- 6:31were doing this, my thinking was you're finally working on
- 6:35something that you should be working on.
- 6:36Yeah. Which I won't go into all of the
- 6:38reasons for that, but there was a series of other things that
- 6:42you worked on which I did not think were a good use of your
- 6:45time, which I have shared with you separately.
- 6:47OK. Do you feel that way?
- 6:49Yeah, I do. I think am I like calling or at
- 6:52least where I get excited is getting people excited and
- 6:55getting people using AI. And like I've always had this
- 6:57tension of I felt like AI was super powerful and I was just,
- 7:01and I always had such great experiences with it.
- 7:03And not everyone has that. Not everyone gets up to speed.
- 7:05And I feel like this really does, like it takes the zero to
- 7:081, but it also takes the one to 10 kind of thing.
- 7:11So I feel excited about it. And I've had this like really
- 7:14great experience where because I've been just like faffing
- 7:18around with so many different types of businesses and business
- 7:20models over the last two years, like SAS and agency and like
- 7:23consumer and brands and stuff like that.
- 7:26I feel like when I speak to people, I just have a really
- 7:28good sense of where the value is for them and building with AI
- 7:31can directly tell them this is where I think HQ is valuable for
- 7:34you. And that's being that's been
- 7:35quite nice. So it does feel like a good
- 7:37product for me to work on and I'm super excited about it.
- 7:40And also finally, I'm working with people with like really,
- 7:43really smart cracked people, which is like really exciting to
- 7:47me because like just working with it, like I'm like a like
- 7:50not a good engineer. I'm like not a good engineer.
- 7:52Like maybe I have a good product inside, but like I'm not a great
- 7:54engineer. Now I'm working with great
- 7:55engineers and that's just so it gives me so much energy because
- 7:59I don't have to focus on the things that I'm not great at.
- 8:01Like I can just focus on what I'm great at and they and
- 8:04everyone else in the team can focus on what they're great at.
- 8:06So that's really nice. Yeah.
- 8:07So there's a there's this thing that I wonder that we debate
- 8:10forever on this pod about like SMB, mid market enterprise, what
- 8:14could be like we have this conversation.
- 8:16I don't know every is it fair to say every episode at this point?
- 8:19It's. Going to be at least once a
- 8:20month, right? Once or twice a month.
- 8:23So roughly all the time. OK.
- 8:25So, so, so I wonder as you're building it, where you think it
- 8:30will have the most value over time, like in which segment of
- 8:34the market and, and you, you don't need to share the segments
- 8:37that you're currently working with, but you can share what
- 8:40segments you're currently working with, what segments are
- 8:42coming inbound. And I just, I just, or if you
- 8:44don't want to, that's also fine. But I just wonder ultimately
- 8:47what I'm curious about is where should the end state be?
- 8:50And given where the end state should be, how does that
- 8:53influence how you think about the go to market today?
- 8:55And my and my push is basically when you post something on X,
- 9:00you are only going to get one variety of those customers.
- 9:04And I am wondering if that's who you want?
- 9:06So in terms of who's come in, in terms of demo requests and in
- 9:10the pipeline, we have very big businesses, like thousands of
- 9:13employees. And we also have like 2 people
- 9:16startups. So there's been a big from X,
- 9:19Yeah, I'll share them with you afterwards.
- 9:21But yeah, with yeah. No, no, don't share it here.
- 9:23I'm so so. So you think that posting on X
- 9:25can bring in enterprises? I mean, it did for me.
- 9:28OK. I'm just built different.
- 9:30I love that. No skill issue.
- 9:34I mean, I guess I posted on LinkedIn and at the time we
- 9:37didn't have UTM tracking set up. So I don't know exactly where
- 9:40they come in, but I think it's from Twitter.
- 9:41But like I know from experience, like I have in the past gotten
- 9:45enterprise inbound from Twitter, from a business that like we
- 9:48both worked with. I think you probably know I'm
- 9:49talking about two others or three or four others, 2 from I
- 9:54think like Blodge yesterday really large businesses came in
- 9:59and I haven't even looked through like the rest.
- 10:01But yeah, we definitely had enterprises and then like.
- 10:05Part of it may be that your content is interesting to those
- 10:08people, like the things that you talk about and post about in
- 10:10terms of like AI uses and stuff. Like the big companies obviously
- 10:13have these problems too, and they're trying to figure out how
- 10:15to get adoption. So like, obviously those people
- 10:17are there on those platforms and if you are speaking to the
- 10:20things that they care about, you might be more likely to reach
- 10:22them. I think it'll be interesting for
- 10:24you like the, the stakeholders that come in haven't always been
- 10:27executives though like some of them are.
- 10:29I'm a head of AI, I'm leading AI enablement at this large
- 10:33business. And so I'm interested in
- 10:35learning more. And I feel like the persona of
- 10:37that person at these businesses can now tend towards younger and
- 10:41tend towards more online. So I think that makes sense.
- 10:46I think those people coming in through Twitter definitely makes
- 10:50sense. Who do you?
- 10:51Want to serve with the product. So, so now, so now actually you
- 10:54have the prototypical problem. So OK, so actually this makes
- 10:57the question even harder, right? So like, because a lot of
- 11:00businesses, they can only attract a certain type of
- 11:02customer. And so then they just end up
- 11:04saying, OK, if I attract this customer, I serve them.
- 11:06But now you're saying I have everybody from 10s of thousands
- 11:09of people to two people. And so now prioritization of
- 11:12where you want to surf first becomes even more important.
- 11:16And so how do you think, like forget you Jacob, the person.
- 11:19Like the job is what is HQ's place in the world, right?
- 11:22Like your job at HQ is to make sure HQ gets its place in the
- 11:25world. So where where does where is
- 11:26HQ's place in the world? I.
- 11:28Don't know the answer. I don't know it exactly.
- 11:30And that's the reason why we launched how we did kind of like
- 11:32go through demo because I want, I want to have high touch in
- 11:36rolling these out and see how they land.
- 11:38But my intuition is that it works best for larger
- 11:40enterprises, like a bigger business where a lean tech team
- 11:46could build HQ, like a like a lean startup could build HQ or
- 11:50their own version of HQ. Like obviously because we did
- 11:52it, you know, like they could build it a super lean or even
- 11:56like a relatively lean with a technical person could build it.
- 11:59But, and they're already pretty strong AI users, like they could
- 12:02figure out the issues that they could figure out ways to solve
- 12:07the issues. Or at least they at this stage,
- 12:09if they're, if they're early, if they're young, if they're small
- 12:11and lean, then they're going to be AI 1st and AI forward.
- 12:15I think the best company that would benefit the most from HQ
- 12:19is you have a top down initiative.
- 12:21We want to implement AI inside of our businesses.
- 12:24And I'm just really struggling to get everyone using it.
- 12:27Like I'm struggling to get the person who has been part of the
- 12:30company for 10 years to fill some position that I don't know
- 12:33that like I'm really startling to get this 40 year old member
- 12:37of my like accounting team, a marketing team to use AI.
- 12:40And I don't want to put them in the terminal.
- 12:41I don't want them to, I don't them they don't even understand
- 12:44what a CLI means, but I really want them.
- 12:46But I see other people doing things that are so super
- 12:48powerful and I want that for everyone else.
- 12:50And I think that happens in a bigger business because kind of
- 12:54by nature average skill level will tend towards the middle or
- 12:59like decrease. So that's where my intuition
- 13:03goes. Can I ask a question?
- 13:05Yeah, I can't remember if this was in the video.
- 13:07I feel like it was not. Does the tool also give you
- 13:11reporting in terms of how people are using?
- 13:14Yeah, I was about to ask this. It does.
- 13:16And this is huge. It does.
- 13:18And this is, I think this is really big, like being able to
- 13:20see what people are working on, how much they're working on it,
- 13:23like the token usage, stuff like that.
- 13:24I think that's going to be really exciting for bigger
- 13:26businesses. I don't even think you have to
- 13:27be that big of a business to have this problem.
- 13:29I mean, basically any business I think where people have been
- 13:31doing something for an extended period of time in a specific way
- 13:34and you have more than 10 people, I think this is actually
- 13:36a problem. Did.
- 13:38You have multiple levels between the person who's trying to
- 13:41execute and implement AI and the person who's doing the work.
- 13:44You have this problem. And so I think I think it's AI
- 13:46don't know 1520 thirty people as being a problem.
- 13:50So yeah, I. Mean, I just don't, I just don't
- 13:52think those people are good customers, Jeremiah, like that's
- 13:55you and me basically, right. You're describing you and me and
- 13:58I just, I'm like thinking to myself like why would like like
- 14:02it just feels like bad business for Jacob to spend his time
- 14:05talking to you and me versus spending his time talking to
- 14:08work day. Yeah.
- 14:09Well, let's talk about the economics of it though, because
- 14:11I think that's actually interesting, right.
- 14:12Like I, I mean, Jacob, I just had, we had a guest on this
- 14:17isn't out yet, but a company called Adapt.
- 14:18So we're using something that's similar at least on the way
- 14:21you're describing it at our company.
- 14:23And it's a, it's a basically like the, the AI brain of our
- 14:29business. And so it's a really interesting
- 14:31concept. And I think it's a, it's a
- 14:34conceptually very similar to what you're you're building.
- 14:36But I'm finding us spending a massive amount of money on it
- 14:39and based their model. We we paid them and they
- 14:44basically run everything through a bunch of different models
- 14:46depending on like what the task is.
- 14:48It basically picks the right model.
- 14:49So it's not, it's not just clawed in this context.
- 14:52Yeah. So in that context though, I
- 14:55don't know how their economics work, but I know that basically
- 14:57there's like effectively like we're paying a, we're paying a
- 15:00percentage of the token usage just that works out.
- 15:03And so in that case, that's actually like quite lucrative I
- 15:07would think for them, but I'm not sure how your model is.
- 15:09So I'm curious what that that looks like.
- 15:11Well, because we built on top of cloud code and codecs and
- 15:14whatever you're using, we don't charge per token.
- 15:16We don't charge for tokens. So like a customer I think costs
- 15:23a dollar per month for us. So our goal, and this is like
- 15:29something I think is worth discussing with you guys.
- 15:32I just feel I feel like we live in a time right now where
- 15:35there's like almost an arbitrage opportunity based on
- 15:39distribution to get insane valuations or to get insane
- 15:44opportunities based on distribution.
- 15:49And I just want to land HQ in as many businesses as possible.
- 15:53We are offering to charge for service.
- 15:56So because we, we have this amazing, we have this like lens
- 16:00into your business and we, it's like super powerful.
- 16:02Like imagine I was working with you, Jeremiah, and you wanted
- 16:05some skill across your business for some team to use.
- 16:08Like if I'm part of your HQ, I can just push it in and everyone
- 16:10else in your team can use it and I can teach them how to use it
- 16:12or I can create a handoff skill or tutorial for them to use
- 16:15right. So like I have a lot of access.
- 16:17So we are offering service for an implementation which there's
- 16:21been a fair amount of demand for, you know, like set it up
- 16:24for us and teach and build some stuff for us.
- 16:26But in terms of the actual like pricing, I just want to get it
- 16:29in as many businesses as I can. I want as many people running
- 16:31their businesses on top of HQ as possible.
- 16:34And obviously like there's insane ways to monetize on top
- 16:36of that. If like if you, if I'm the
- 16:38primary interface for the ways that people are interacting with
- 16:41AI, like well, I'm the, I'm the primary workspace or I'm one
- 16:43level away from Claude or open AI and I'm the agnostic open
- 16:47source provider to it. Then like I can sell, I can sell
- 16:51or provide a lot of value on top of that.
- 16:53What's wild to is it so one of the things I think about a lot
- 16:55with this with any business built on top of token usage
- 16:59effectively is that there's a in my business, I see a ton of
- 17:02waste in the token usage because of the fact that like people are
- 17:05doing the same things multiple times.
- 17:07There's like, there's probably cheaper ways you could do the
- 17:09same thing. There's all the, there's
- 17:10different models, all this kind of stuff.
- 17:11You could like, I am very certain that the things that
- 17:14we're doing today could be done with a third, the number of
- 17:16tokens if we actually knew what we were doing with that.
- 17:20And so if you sit there and you have all that visibility, like I
- 17:23actually think that will be a major business in the future is
- 17:25how do we people coming in and saying, I'm going to help you
- 17:27optimize your token usage, whatever that looks.
- 17:29And I don't know if that's kind of what you're thinking about.
- 17:32But I just think there's so much opportunity in that context of
- 17:36if you are in all these businesses and somebody's
- 17:38spending $10,000 a month on token usage and you can get them
- 17:41to cut that in half, they're going to well while delivering
- 17:44the same amount of value there. There's a opportunity for you in
- 17:47that. Context yeah, and incentives are
- 17:48aligned here. Like if you're using a provider
- 17:51like adapter, whatever, where they charge per token, like they
- 17:54may say that they're going to optimize your tokens, they may
- 17:56say they're routing you through a lot like small models, but
- 17:59incentives inherently are not aligned.
- 18:01Like they want you to do more and you want to do you want to
- 18:04use less. But our incentives are the same.
- 18:06Like we use HQ, we use inside of our code, code and codec
- 18:08subscriptions. We rolled out a skill called
- 18:10Caveman Bro, which we found on X that reduces the number of
- 18:13tokens because we want to save money because we're all blowing
- 18:17through our subscriptions because we're also like because
- 18:19we're also efficient now, you know, so it's just different.
- 18:21So building on top of those things and working in the same
- 18:23way that you guys do, it just changes the economics
- 18:25significantly. Yeah, I like this distribution
- 18:27play. I think it's great.
- 18:28I think it's really strong. One of the things I wonder, and
- 18:31this is I guess more of a product based question with
- 18:33teams in AI no longer being solo.
- 18:36You know, we talked about one of the problems of solving that.
- 18:38Everyone is working on the same thing over and over again.
- 18:40The work is getting redone let's say by the sales reps doing
- 18:43their outreach thing. Your sales reps are all building
- 18:45separate outreach methods that could consolidate into one
- 18:48skill. But then I guess, and I just
- 18:51want to battle test this one example, you lose the
- 18:53personalization like I'm sure every organization has seen
- 18:56their sales reps say, I actually don't want to do what the other
- 18:59sales reps are doing. I don't believe in what they're
- 19:01doing. And a small amount of variation
- 19:03like that's getting standardized in like let's say at skill would
- 19:06actually straight right. And you, you decrease your
- 19:09exposure to people who do incredible net new work, right?
- 19:14Like one of the things that I've done pretty recently that I
- 19:16think is a pretty nifty is I managed to get my Mac mini to
- 19:20hand write emails like a total perfect human simulation using
- 19:24Gmail for my cold outbound as opposed to something like
- 19:26instantly, right? So then it's just sending actual
- 19:30emails as if it was a real user. I like that.
- 19:32I think it's, I don't know if it actually does that much versus
- 19:35sending e-mail via the API, but I like it.
- 19:38Like there's something there that feels good to me, as if it
- 19:40might have some benefit if I had to, I guess, comply with the way
- 19:46that the rest of the team were doing outbound.
- 19:48I might, like, find that frustrating.
- 19:49And then the team at the whole might lose the ability to do
- 19:52things, you know, individually, right, differently depending on
- 19:55the preferences of the user. Yeah.
- 19:57I just, yeah, would love to hear your thoughts on that.
- 19:59Like, is there ability to fork off and say, actually, yeah, I
- 20:03want to use these other people's skills.
- 20:04I want to do my own thing here and build something net new,
- 20:06completely different and not be a team, actually be a solo
- 20:09builder. There is so like HQ has a
- 20:11personal, there's like a personal version of it and a
- 20:13company version of it. And not you're not locked into
- 20:15the company cloud. Like I don't have to push
- 20:18everything I work to the cloud. I don't have to pull everything
- 20:20I work from the cloud. I can have personal things that
- 20:22I don't share with the rest of the team.
- 20:24So yes, like the capabilities 100% there and my HQ could
- 20:27become personalized and I could say I want to use this version
- 20:29of the skill, but I want to put my own twist on it.
- 20:31But I would also challenge the premise of the question.
- 20:33Like if one SDR is doing something better than the rest
- 20:36of the team, then surely as like a head of sales, I should just,
- 20:40that should become the default way that the team works.
- 20:43And like, yes, maybe like, but yes, I can also roll this
- 20:46personalization into that process or like a little bit of
- 20:49a little bit of flexibility on top of that.
- 20:51But like, I just think that if like if I have a team skill and
- 20:55one SDR is doing something that's better, then it should
- 20:58like that should just become the team skill.
- 20:59So like in that example, yeah, percent.
- 21:03There's chicken and egg, right? Everyone's standardized and
- 21:05you've gone in a direction that is becoming concretized.
- 21:08Like, how do you how do you fork out and say, I can imagine in a
- 21:11sales team, you know, small sales teams, just like people
- 21:14forget big sales teams, People just getting constantly
- 21:16frustrated at what other people have built.
- 21:18And they're like, Nah, I want to do things my own way, right?
- 21:19The way that Dan is doing it is really stupid.
- 21:22Like, you know, yeah, the metrics look good on a one week,
- 21:24but what will they look like on a month, right?
- 21:27When they're statistically significant, they'll have a
- 21:29bunch of, you know, explanations for why what Dan is doing and is
- 21:31the prevailing skill right now is is is not what they want to
- 21:35do, right? And if the Commission
- 21:36incentivize, they should have, I guess, the freedom to do that
- 21:38right, to fork off. I mean, I think this is like a
- 21:42short term problem. Like let's just take the sales
- 21:44example in in in like in an ideal world, you wouldn't have
- 21:49random humans doing what they think is best in some competing
- 21:52way. Like you just will have criteria
- 21:54for what is correct. You'll build skills around that
- 21:57or you'll build capabilities around that.
- 21:58Maybe you have one person operating at far more efficiency
- 22:03and they can basically eat the rest of the team.
- 22:05Like there's no bottleneck in output.
- 22:07And with AI, like if I have 5 sales reps and I have one person
- 22:10that's consistently outperforming, then they should
- 22:13do all the outbound or I could build agents on top of it.
- 22:15And that's the product direction that we want to go into HQ in
- 22:17the future is like, you've built this company workspace, let's
- 22:20now deploy agents on top of that knowledge base and skill base.
- 22:23And I think like that would be an ideal direction.
- 22:25But like to answer the main core of the question, it is, it is
- 22:30customizable, It is personalizable.
- 22:32And I think the way that you manage what is at a company
- 22:34level versus a personal level is like a matter of preference of
- 22:37the executive or the leader or the CEO.
- 22:41Cool. It sounds great.
- 22:42It sounds like a great product. Time, who do you think is the
- 22:44best buyer of this product inside the company?
- 22:47So you, you, you actually, or maybe this is a question we
- 22:50should ask you in six months. But I, I'm just curious, like
- 22:53what is the title of the person who you think would buy this?
- 22:57To in my experience so far, it's the CEO.
- 23:00It's like it's whoever has the most incentive to enable AI in
- 23:03their business. So it's the CEO has been a lot
- 23:06of the, a lot of the inbound because like they're putting all
- 23:10the pressure down onto into under the AI rollout or for
- 23:13larger businesses, there's this like head of AI enablement role,
- 23:16which is recently popped up that I've seen coming up more and
- 23:19more. And they are responsible for AI
- 23:21rollouts. And so they are they're the one
- 23:24buying it. But the way that we've been
- 23:26landing it is like we'll land it with your strongest power user
- 23:29and then distributor outwards from there.
- 23:31So honestly, that's like usually the CEO and like, I'm curious
- 23:35why you think that is the case that in so many businesses the
- 23:38CEO I. Don't think it's you think is it
- 23:40the CEO or is it the founder? Founder.
- 23:41Sorry, why the founder? I guess now I've just answered
- 23:44by reframing at that answer. Yeah, that makes sense.
- 23:48That makes sense. I mean, OK, you don't think it's
- 23:50CEO as well like for sure. I think the you don't think
- 23:54that's true of CEO's like takeover businesses?
- 23:56No, I I think depends. I think there's a small minority
- 24:00of CEO's who have the mindset that it takes to do to do this.
- 24:08The average, like the average CEO is an optimizer, not a
- 24:11transformer. And the average founder is a
- 24:14transformer and not an optimizer actually.
- 24:16And so you find like founder CEOs have to augment themselves
- 24:19with optimizers and like vice versa, right?
- 24:23Like that's a that's a very common or like systems builders.
- 24:26And I think that I think that the reason the founder is the
- 24:29most active user of AI is because they're happy to go back
- 24:34to a team of one or two. Yeah.
- 24:37And that's what they're doing with AI.
- 24:38Like, you know, like I've always been pretty impressed with Corey
- 24:44at Jones Rd. but recently, much more, so much more.
- 24:49So there's Cody. Cody, It's Cody.
- 24:52Sorry, it's. Because I said Corey.
- 24:54It's yeah, you said Corey because of Corey, I've seen and
- 24:56now I'm like getting confused, but sorry Cody at Jones.
- 25:00OK, so recently I've been very impressed with Cody, much more
- 25:04so than than I've been in the past, because I think he's like
- 25:08decided to go found Concord founder mode on a bunch of
- 25:11things. And I'm like seeing him do
- 25:14things. I'm like, dude, other people are
- 25:16not going to do this. They're just not.
- 25:20And, and it's, it's like so evident because he'll, the way
- 25:24it's evident is he'll post something and the responses from
- 25:29people is, can you share that? And that is the tell.
- 25:32The tell is they want someone else to do the work and hand it
- 25:35to them. Have you ever seen Cody's taking
- 25:36sure that like Cody is just doing it himself?
- 25:38The and that that is, that's the, that's the tell.
- 25:41The tell is like, no, I don't see in the comments someone
- 25:44asking like, dude, what in like, what was the first step you took
- 25:48that got you on the journey to being able to do these things on
- 25:51your own? If someone asks that question,
- 25:53that would be like, OK, this is actually someone who is likely
- 25:56to end up in the same spot as Cody, but that's not what people
- 25:58are asking. And so I, I just, I just think
- 26:01that like, yeah, I don't think, I don't think the average CEO is
- 26:03going to do it. I think the total number of like
- 26:06force of will that's required is just monumental.
- 26:09Interesting thing there as well as that's not a technical
- 26:11barrier. There's no technical barrier to
- 26:13entry. There was in the past, but this
- 26:15is the one thing where there isn't a technical barrier to
- 26:17entry and you could just get stuck in this.
- 26:19I've seen Cody's tweets as well. And yeah, you see people in the
- 26:23comments saying, hey, can you basically hand this to me?
- 26:24And he is looking to hand it to someone.
- 26:27He wants to hand it off to someone, and that person's going
- 26:29to have a job role. And I actually think that job
- 26:31roles are very similar to the person that's in the comments
- 26:33saying, can you hand it to me? Because they're given a title of
- 26:36a thing that they do, and then they're given a system that they
- 26:38have to follow and repeat that's set by someone, right?
- 26:41Either by standards of the industry or by the, you know,
- 26:43the CEO, the founder. And then they've got to go and
- 26:45do that thing. And what you might find with
- 26:47employees in certain organizations is an
- 26:49unwillingness to adapt, to update their methods.
- 26:51So take like, I guess the typical example of someone who
- 26:54might be at Jones Roe beauty with Cody, someone who sends
- 26:56e-mail in Cladio, right? That person has a system that
- 27:00they've been going through for weeks and weeks and months and
- 27:02months and years and years. And it could actually be really
- 27:05hard to make them AI native. Same thing with I imagine they
- 27:08weren't building all their landing pages with the CEO in
- 27:10the past, right? But now they are, right?
- 27:12So who was doing it before they have their processes.
- 27:15Maybe they were using Rappler, maybe they were natively in in
- 27:17Shopify. But now he's creating this new
- 27:19role, he's shaping out what it's going to look like, and
- 27:22someone's going to go in on train tracks and do the thing
- 27:24that Cody trailblazed, right? I think in a lot of ways this
- 27:28might be the reason for is the person that does it is because
- 27:31they have that high agency to just go and get the thing done
- 27:33right. Even without a technical Barrett
- 27:35entry, that's just prompting. Jack that can I push back?
- 27:38I think that's a massive mistake.
- 27:40If, if, if what ends up happening is he hires someone to
- 27:43go do that thing. I don't, I know, I don't know
- 27:46that that's what he's doing. But if that's what he ends up
- 27:48doing, the reason it's a mistake is that that thing that he built
- 27:52today is going to be different in three months.
- 27:54And this is actually what separates Cody from everybody in
- 27:57the comments. What separates Cody from
- 27:59everybody in the comments is that what he was doing 3 months
- 28:01ago is different than what he is doing today.
- 28:03Right. And actually, he chose to
- 28:05continuously update what he's doing.
- 28:08And that's exactly why you cannot be handed something
- 28:10because the, this is, we are not settled.
- 28:13Like AI is not a settled technology.
- 28:15Like cloud is a settled technology.
- 28:17AI is not a settled technology. So the, the, the, the you have
- 28:20to be, you have to like, not hand someone something to say
- 28:23like, here's how you have to think.
- 28:24Are you going to get on the treadmill and keep running?
- 28:27You can't say like, hey, this thing is done and hand it to
- 28:29someone. And that shift in mentality is
- 28:31exactly the problem. And I think that's why I Jake up
- 28:34to your point on like the CEO versus the founder of like who
- 28:38is the adopter of issue HQ by by the way, HQ also nothing static
- 28:43about the output. You build a skill, you push it
- 28:45back up to the parent organization how or a parent
- 28:49organization it can. You can choose how, how, how
- 28:51many hierarchies you want and in the parent and and and and the
- 28:54permissions. But but the point is actually
- 28:57that it is by definition evolving and it is a learning
- 29:00system and, and most people want to be told, here's how you use
- 29:05the tool. Now operate the tool.
- 29:06And that's literally exactly not true.
- 29:09And and that's why the the person who's going to be most
- 29:12likely to buy as a founder and or is someone in the
- 29:14organization who has that mentality, but they're super
- 29:17hard to identify outside in super hard.
- 29:21Yeah. Does that mean in your minds
- 29:22that most people, while I agree with you that like this
- 29:26technology is not finished, like it probably won't be for years,
- 29:30right, In terms of like what the final form is?
- 29:32So in your mind, does that mean that most people are going to be
- 29:34perpetually behind until we get to some sort of steady states if
- 29:38that ever happens? I don't even know what that
- 29:39looks like years from now, but because like what I'm thinking
- 29:43about here is somebody could go and enable HQ, but unless
- 29:47everybody in the org is actively working on improving it, all
- 29:51right, you don't need everybody, but there has to be a driver of
- 29:54that. Otherwise it's going to stagnate
- 29:55as well, correct? The single you, if I were a
- 29:59salesperson at HQ, you know how I would sell it.
- 30:01Madam or Mr. Founder, you have a distribution of talent on your
- 30:05team today in terms of how AI forward and AI native they are.
- 30:09And you're sitting to yourselves and your only tool is fire the
- 30:12people who are not AI native and promote the people who are.
- 30:15That's the that's the only like choice you have today.
- 30:18What if I gave you a tool that took your top users and
- 30:21automatically propagated what the skills are to the rest of
- 30:24the organization? You can still do that sort, but
- 30:27at least now you have a second lever to take the distribution
- 30:30of talent on your team and through a tool, force the issue
- 30:34on at least some larger portion of your organization.
- 30:38That's how I would sell it and I would sell it as an
- 30:40organizational issue and not not a product issue.
- 30:44Our tagline is one person's breakthrough becomes everyone's
- 30:46baseline, which is what you're saying, right?
- 30:49Like you, you distribute down the capability.
- 30:52Yeah. My suggestion is that you
- 30:53directly provoke the question that they're already interacting
- 30:55with, which is like what portion of my team do I have to fire?
- 30:58Because it's not a mistake that Coinbase and like these
- 31:01massively profitable companies, why do you think they're firing
- 31:03people? It's not to save money.
- 31:05I mean, like no one in their right mind thinks it's to save
- 31:08money, right? I mean, can I assume we agree
- 31:11that it's not to save money? Right.
- 31:13Despite the impact on the stock price, I think that Brian
- 31:15Armstrong articulated it really well, exactly why they're doing
- 31:18it. Actually, I think Dorsey as well
- 31:20did the same thing that they're describing.
- 31:22It's not just to save money, right?
- 31:24Why is it tell me I missed the Coinbase?
- 31:26It's a fundamental restructuring.
- 31:28They're like fundamentally restructuring everyone's roles
- 31:31basically to have a different expectation from people.
- 31:33And Coinbase been doing it for a long time.
- 31:34They're the reason I first started using Cursor.
- 31:38They've been at it since like early 2025, but they're they're
- 31:41cutting now and it looks like they're changing the expectation
- 31:45for every single employee of the business.
- 31:46That might be a little bit too much of an absolute, but like
- 31:48for a lot of people, right? Just can't stand crypto.
- 31:51I stay. I try to stay away from all the
- 31:53Coinbase. OK, fine.
- 31:54I'm kidding. What?
- 31:55I'm kidding, dude. I'm kidding.
- 31:56I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
- 31:57OK, whatever. Cloudflare.
- 31:58OK, Cloudflare yesterday did a 20% layoff.
- 32:01You know what I mean? Why do you think Cloudflare did
- 32:02a 20% layoff? Do these people are printing
- 32:04money right now? They're printing money.
- 32:06So like the premises, if they could, if they could have N + 1
- 32:11AI enabled employees and they would choose to keep them and
- 32:13this allows them to do that, but they just can't.
- 32:15They can't get that get that cohort to work.
- 32:19This is the craziest labor market in history.
- 32:22OK, you can't keep the people who are not a native.
- 32:27There are for sure not enough AI native people in existence for
- 32:31you to actually fill the roles in your company.
- 32:34So you have more job postings than you've ever had before
- 32:37because everyone is trying to find that subset of people who
- 32:40belong to that cohort. But the total number of actually
- 32:43employed in tech people is going down.
- 32:45It's not big and none of it is for financial reasons, which is
- 32:51the crazy part. They just don't like what?
- 32:52Why are they firing them? You can't have those people in
- 32:54the company. Why can't you?
- 32:55You can't have them. I don't.
- 32:57I want to push back a little bit on that, that it's not at all
- 32:59for financial reasons. I do think one of the things
- 33:01we're seeing is that the software market has seen really
- 33:05big loss in stock price. And so you've seen what was at
- 33:09the top 25 software companies are down 50% over the last six
- 33:12months. I do know that that has pressure
- 33:15and ultimately the the way to expand your price is better
- 33:20revenues and better margin and basically giving confidence that
- 33:24you're going to be able to succeed in the future.
- 33:26And it's very hard for those businesses to show that right
- 33:29now. But I think part of what we're
- 33:30seeing is that you have things like debt covenants and stuff
- 33:34that start to come into play when stock prices drop to
- 33:37certain levels and you've got profit margin concerns and all
- 33:39these kinds of things. I think there's a little bit
- 33:41there that maybe goes beyond the just trying to save money where
- 33:45we're seeing companies making some of these decisions based on
- 33:47the future outlook of the industry, not necessarily just
- 33:50the whether these people are AI native or not.
- 33:53So I, I don't know if that made sense.
- 33:56But anyway, that's I think there's, there's some stuff
- 33:57there with the, the banking system ultimately that plays
- 34:01into us as well, not just the AI versus non AI native people.
- 34:03I think that's true if you have already signed yourselves up to
- 34:06believing that you are not going to become an AI native company.
- 34:09So under that context, that's true, but in the context of
- 34:12companies where that's not true, Cloudflare being one of them,
- 34:16because what's a big part of what Cloudflare is doing right
- 34:18now, they're making, they're helping companies make decisions
- 34:20on whether or not a particular bot is allowed to like crawl the
- 34:23page. They're like, I mean, like,
- 34:25again, we don't talk about them like an AI company, but they're
- 34:27for sure an AI beneficiary because the total number of
- 34:30pages that you have to render and how you decide whether or
- 34:32not you allow an interaction on your pages, all of it is being
- 34:35arbitrated by Cloudflare, right? This like random company that
- 34:38controls like what, 90% of the Internet basically.
- 34:41And I think that and, and it's a massively profitable company.
- 34:44And so, yeah, I, I don't know man.
- 34:46I, I think it's like, I think the total number of people who
- 34:49are going to be effective is today not large.
- 34:53And so you need to figure out a way to get that total number of
- 34:56people who are going to be effective to become much larger.
- 34:58And there's, I think there's way more pressure to doing that than
- 35:02there is financial pressures when when you are when you are
- 35:07cash flowing, if you're not cash flowing, it's a totally
- 35:09different issue. Yeah.
- 35:10But it in this context just just work on the like cloud flare.
- 35:14So I just looked it up. They've got, I don't know enough
- 35:16here, but I'm just as an example, they've got 3 1/2
- 35:18billion dollars in debt. Sometimes cash flow with these
- 35:21companies isn't actually the thing that matters.
- 35:22It's your debt covenant some and what the stipulations are that
- 35:26have been put in place. And so when your stock price is
- 35:27down and the industry's down and you've got like margin pressure
- 35:31and the bank can come to you and say, OK, I have a friend who who
- 35:34worked in a a large public company that that went bankrupt
- 35:37recently. It wasn't that they couldn't pay
- 35:39their loans. It was that they tripped their
- 35:40debt covenants and had to then pay back $100 million that they
- 35:44didn't have at that moment. And so the bank said, you've got
- 35:4760 days and like, well, we don't have, they went and tried to get
- 35:51$100 million and they couldn't get it.
- 35:52And then you basically just do an asset sale and and that's it.
- 35:55So there's some of that kind of stuff.
- 35:57I think that's happening too. I don't think it's all like for
- 35:59Cloudflare, their debt, their stock is down.
- 36:01It could also be that this is a good example, because I don't
- 36:06know enough about Cloudflare, but there's businesses like
- 36:07Cloudflare that flare that are doing layoffs in part just
- 36:10because of the fact that a bank may be coming to them saying,
- 36:13hey, you're, you're at risk here.
- 36:14You need to be careful. And I think there's a lot of
- 36:16that kind of stuff that's happening right now, too.
- 36:18Yeah. I think to give like a really
- 36:19concrete example of what Rashad was saying about those people
- 36:21cannot exist at the business. If you take a look at just like
- 36:24AI solving customer service, right, that decreases risk at
- 36:27companies like the ones we were just talking about, the ones
- 36:29that we were just talking about, the customer service sometimes
- 36:32sell customer information. That's like a real risk that you
- 36:35completely mitigate by having AI solve it.
- 36:37There's also human error, right? There's some rate of human error
- 36:40from these people. And then there's the economic
- 36:42value of the service actually forcing compromise, right?
- 36:46Bad English in a lot of cases, no one has a good experience
- 36:48with human customer service for the most part, right?
- 36:51For the most part, people are frustrated with their experience
- 36:53with customer service. I don't get frustrated with AI
- 36:55customer service. It just solves the problem.
- 36:57I'm like, OK, cool, bye. I don't feel like I have to be
- 36:59friendly. It's like, OK, how do I do this?
- 37:00Here's it here it is. I took to the page, I'm like,
- 37:02oh, wow, that's incredible. Or like I was in customer
- 37:04service for 11 labs the other day.
- 37:06I was actually speaking to it and it was taking me to
- 37:08different pages and I was like, this is incredible, right?
- 37:10This is what customer service should be.
- 37:12So I don't think that humans can exist in that future, right,
- 37:16personally, right. And it seems like these
- 37:18businesses are choosing for humans not to exist in that same
- 37:21capacity that they they used to. But I'd love to hear what you
- 37:24guys think about this and especially you, Jake, if you
- 37:26have so much surface area on these different types of
- 37:28businesses. But everyone knows the romantic
- 37:30view of product like growth, right?
- 37:31No marketing line item adoption through frictionless problem
- 37:34solving. People get into the app, they
- 37:35love it, they use it, it solves a problem for them like Claude,
- 37:39right? But we're still seeing AI
- 37:41implementation experts headcount for the purpose of bringing the
- 37:44team along because even with frictionless access to software
- 37:48that solves problems with like an aggressive velocity, right at
- 37:51this unprecedented ease, some people still don't adopt, right?
- 37:56And they stay in their old ways. So you need people to come in
- 37:58and basically usher them. So yeah, I'm interested from you
- 38:02guys that are leading teams. And I know that Rashad Jeremiah,
- 38:04you guys are actually confronting this problem right
- 38:06now in your business. How do we bring everyone along,
- 38:08right, and make them update their ways?
- 38:10What is the role of, you know, software on this?
- 38:12Is that gamification? Is there a way that we can
- 38:15design the tools to help people come on board, like what you're
- 38:19doing, Jacob, with HQ? What's the role of AI natives as
- 38:22headcounts coming into the business and bringing people
- 38:24along? And I guess the last one will be
- 38:26what's the role of the expectation from the founder and
- 38:29the CEO to say, hey, actually you've got to do this.
- 38:31This is the new expectation, just like we expected to you to
- 38:34use Google Docs. And no one was particularly
- 38:36passionate about Google Docs, but you use it because it's part
- 38:37of your job. And that's what you do.
- 38:39You founder or the CEO or the team lead or whatever it happens
- 38:41to be, now has the expectation that you're going to be AI
- 38:43native. Yeah, that was kind of like a
- 38:46really big loaded question. Yeah.
- 38:49Founder software, designing the software in a way that's
- 38:51frictionless and brings everyone along, like maybe gamification
- 38:54or making fun. And then I'm in a new head
- 38:57count, right? That's part of what we're doing
- 38:59with my business. It is free.
- 39:00We're trying to get as much adoption as possible.
- 39:03But on the service side, we're helping businesses solve real
- 39:06problems in their business with AI, right?
- 39:08That otherwise required people who had opinions and didn't want
- 39:11to update their process, right? I have a coaching piece is so
- 39:15important. I think like Jacob, you're
- 39:16talking about how you have the service aspect.
- 39:19I think that's so critical right now.
- 39:23I agree. Sure.
- 39:23You're talking about the like constantly being behind the
- 39:26things like Cody's doing today or not things he's doing 3
- 39:28months ago. I mean, that's true for me as
- 39:30well. And that's it's just constantly
- 39:31changing. And I think the other thing
- 39:33that's interesting here, Jacob, the amount of demand you had so
- 39:35quickly with this launch, I think it's just indicative of
- 39:38the fact that very few people actually know what to do right
- 39:40now. And I actually be curious for
- 39:44your take on that too. But it just seems like there's
- 39:46this, we see a few examples of people doing things really well,
- 39:49but then the gap between that and actually figuring out how to
- 39:52make that work for yourself, for your teams, for your company,
- 39:55whatever seems to be very large right now.
- 39:58And Jack, I just, I direct directly answer your question
- 40:01like I don't like gamifying software fixes that.
- 40:03I think it's really like coaching people ultimately.
- 40:06Like, yeah, AI is a new tool. Not everyone has time to spend
- 40:11their entire life on Twitter and using AI like I do, you know,
- 40:13like it's just real people with real jobs doing their real job.
- 40:17And they actually don't have time to like get really good at
- 40:21using a tool like core code. And it's overwhelming.
- 40:24Like the product experience is overwhelming.
- 40:27You know, like you do have. I think there's a reason why
- 40:29it's quite barbelled is because you have this chat box.
- 40:32There's like magic chat box, which is really easy to give you
- 40:36a lot of flexibility. It's really easy to use, but
- 40:39also it's like, what do I do with the magic cat box?
- 40:40You know, like I put myself in the mind of some random employee
- 40:43and they're like, what do I do with this thing?
- 40:45You know, they don't understand the and it is a technical tool.
- 40:49Like it just is a tech. Like if I'm going to hook it up
- 40:51to my CRM, there's a lot of things that maybe I understand
- 40:55or like you guys understand about how that mechanically
- 40:57works because we work in software businesses, but like it
- 40:59is inherently technical. So like, it's not, it's not
- 41:02necessarily easy, it's not necessarily intuitive when you
- 41:05get into it. And so I think it's fair to
- 41:07assume that it requires coaching like, and you can't compare it
- 41:11to the Google suite of tools. Like if I open a Google doc,
- 41:13it's like very obvious what I do, right?
- 41:15It's a page for me to write on. If I open in Gmail, it's a very
- 41:18obvious I'm sending an e-mail. But when I open like Pandora's
- 41:21box and I can literally do anything with, with this thing,
- 41:23it's like, well, what does that mean?
- 41:25So I do, I think it requires coaching, but I do think once
- 41:29you've, once you've kind of shifted your mindset and once
- 41:31you get an intuition for it, then you do become really good
- 41:34at it. And that's why implemented
- 41:36implementers are also valuable because they are able to take
- 41:40the expertise and that what they've learned and they're able
- 41:42to do that for people who don't know and able to teach them.
- 41:44And then there's also a miss massive mismatch of
- 41:46expectations. And this is something that I've
- 41:48shifted my mindset on recently, which is I actually don't think
- 41:51everything needs to be done with an autonomous agent, like a
- 41:54fully autonomous agent that does everything end to end for you.
- 41:57I and that's what people sell on Twitter and LinkedIn because it
- 41:59gets the views and it gets the, it gets the retweets.
- 42:03Like if I'm optimizing for retweets, then yeah, I'm going
- 42:05to say I built a fully autonomous agent that automated
- 42:07my entire business for me. But if I'm a realistic person,
- 42:10that's I'm most effective when I'm inside of a tool and I'm
- 42:13driving it and it's super and it's a very efficient assistant
- 42:17for me. And it goes off and it does work
- 42:19sometimes, but I'm driving it forward.
- 42:21And so you have a mismatch, mismatch of expectations.
- 42:24If CEO goes in, they say their employee, I want you to automate
- 42:26my process of creating ads for me.
- 42:28And they just can't do that because of what I said before.
- 42:30And it's probably not the right product to build.
- 42:32And ultimately they should be building something a little bit
- 42:34more assistant based. And so they should be working
- 42:37inside of a tool they shouldn't be building and they try and
- 42:40build agents. So I think it's a combination of
- 42:41a lot of things, but but ultimately it goes to like why I
- 42:46built this, which is it puts people in the right place, which
- 42:50is they should be in core code. They shouldn't be magically
- 42:52summoning open core agents to do all their work for them.
- 42:55It teaches them how to do it along the way.
- 42:57It's designed in a way to abstract a way the complexity.
- 42:59And I understand that not everyone's going to be an expert
- 43:01straight away. So I try and teach them and
- 43:02train them along the way. And I think the future of it,
- 43:05sorry, I know this is like a really the future of it, I think
- 43:09is I do think it's possible for AI to teach like we do have a
- 43:12tutorial command, We do have a set up command.
- 43:14I think AI is a good teacher and and that can help self enable
- 43:17and self yield the product. And so that is a future product
- 43:20direction when it goes to product LED growth, when it goes
- 43:23to kind of self enablement and set up.
- 43:26But in the meantime, I think humans can fill back up dude.
- 43:28What a great note to end on. We should not continue.
- 43:32I didn't hear your I gotta. Go.
- 43:35OK, I'll do it. I'll do it really fast.
- 43:37I'll do it really fast. But I really do gotta go, yeah.
- 43:40On thoughts on the expectation from the founder, the role of
- 43:44the founder of the software and I should add in the individual
- 43:47because ultimately at the end of the day, the individual actually
- 43:49needs to want to use these tools but yeah, the role of these
- 43:52different pieces in driving the business to become AI native,
- 43:56bringing those people who aren't using AI yet into using AI in
- 43:59every. Part of the role, yeah, I have a
- 44:02very simplified view of this, which is this technology is
- 44:05evolving at a rate that no other technology in the past has ever
- 44:07evolved at. There's a small subset of people
- 44:10who want to move close to that rate or at that rate, and it is
- 44:14their job to get everyone else to move as quickly as we are
- 44:17able to make them. And that's it.
- 44:19And I think that if we do that, like everybody wins.
- 44:23And if we don't do that, we will experience pain in all sorts of
- 44:28ways that I think are unpleasant, from capitalistic
- 44:32ones to societal ones to like corporate ones, whatever.
- 44:37But that's the TLDR. And, and yeah, I think what Jacob
- 44:41described is like, hopefully AI is a way that we enable that.
- 44:45But regardless of whether or not it is, there's some set of
- 44:47people who are moving at the pace and you've got to.
- 44:51That's the job, yeah. Going to run.
- 44:55Yeah, you got sales goals until 8:00 PM, so I'll speak to you
- 44:59guys.