Latest / 1 to 100 / E59: The New Normal with Olivia Kory and Joe Wyer from Haus
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- 0:00I was just going to ask if we successfully got every CSO at
- 0:02house on the podcast, Chief Strategy, Chief Science.
- 0:06I don't know if you guys have any other CSO's hanging out
- 0:08security. We have a chief security
- 0:11officer. Yeah, there you go.
- 0:12Oh, you do? Yeah, that's.
- 0:14Another one. What are you securing?
- 0:15You're securing geodata Like what are you?
- 0:17What are you securing? All of our customer sales data.
- 0:21Yeah, got it, got it, got it. Pretty pretty important to hold
- 0:24securely. Why?
- 0:25Why store it? Why store it at all?
- 0:26Why not just use it and get rid of it?
- 0:28When I use it and get rid of it, one research 2 like it takes,
- 0:34you could pull snapshots at any given point in time, right?
- 0:37But then you're going to have like, let's say the results
- 0:38change. You have to decompose.
- 0:41If you have really big changes in results and the customers are
- 0:43like, whoa, what happened? You have to go back and
- 0:45decompose like, hey, was it like, was it a change in data
- 0:48version? Was it a change in model
- 0:50version? Was it a change in code version
- 0:52of all those things? Also, there's something called
- 0:54data settling, which is a whole lot of fun to deal with.
- 0:57And so that's why we pull it over.
- 0:59We could, you know, we, we've gotten to points for customers
- 1:01where like we, we have started to talk like, hey, are there
- 1:04different ways you want us to handle your data?
- 1:06And no one really takes us up on it.
- 1:08Oh my God. They would much rather you just
- 1:10secure it. Yeah.
- 1:11Yeah. They want to keep that Cecil
- 1:12employed. I love it.
- 1:15Wait wait, how do you how do you abbreviate all of the CS OS
- 1:18them? Well, I don't, I don't I, I
- 1:20prefer not having an oi think a Spock is a science officer,
- 1:23right? I'm a chief scientist.
- 1:25I think that's different. So I go, I'm just chief
- 1:28scientist, Olivia. Yeah, 2 strategy officer.
- 1:32And they got SISO like we're good.
- 1:33We have enough acronym space, we can figure it.
- 1:35Out they just, they just add a letter.
- 1:37So it's like you start with Joe 2 letters, then you add an O and
- 1:40then you add an I and then and then we got it and now we're
- 1:43winning. Yeah.
- 1:44Yeah, the the C titles are relatively new though.
- 1:47This is like in the last probably 66 to 12 months.
- 1:50We didn't do C titles before we. Didn't have, we didn't have
- 1:52directors, we didn't have VPS, you know, head up was
- 1:56everywhere. Like TikTok?
- 1:59We're going to go backwards now with go to market and member of
- 2:02technical staff. So that's I'm, I'm, I'm looking
- 2:04forward to that. Nice.
- 2:06I, I actually hate the, the term strategy.
- 2:09Like I cannot believe I'm our chief strategy officer because I
- 2:11think it's meaningless. But I've been, I've been, well,
- 2:15I've just been hearing a lot now that like strategy is going to
- 2:17be the only thing left soon. So maybe I should lean into it a
- 2:20little bit more than I have in the past.
- 2:21It's just ambiguous. Like I'm one of my core
- 2:23principles in everything we do is like, call it what it is
- 2:26like. And so I've like, I've, I growth
- 2:29is a tough one, like in terms of, of head of growth title,
- 2:31it's just like say the thing that you do.
- 2:33And that's how we name our products too, besides architect.
- 2:36Architect is the new one that's like kind of a fun one.
- 2:39But mostly I'd say we just try to like say exactly what it is
- 2:42that we do all over the company. And that's why I don't like
- 2:44strategy. Yeah.
- 2:47Did you like Firmat? Who said that?
- 2:51Jeremiah knows. Jeremiah knows.
- 2:53He's banking threes from the half court line.
- 2:55Yeah. If you if you remember, we
- 2:57started talking about whether you're more productive with kids
- 3:01or less productive with kids. And I was telling you that I
- 3:03wish that I house was 10 years ago and you were like, we have
- 3:06to hit that on the pod. Yeah, that is a great place to
- 3:08start. Yes, I agree.
- 3:10That is a great place to start. All right, I can.
- 3:12I can tee up the thought. Exercise maybe?
- 3:14Yeah, go for it. Set us up.
- 3:15Rashab and I were at dinner together in New York last week,
- 3:18which great to meet you in person.
- 3:20And I was telling him that I wish that house was either 10
- 3:23years ago or 10 years from now because like if I didn't have
- 3:27kids, I have two little kids. I have a four year old and a 2
- 3:29year old. If I didn't have little kids, I
- 3:31would like pour myself in like I would go deep in flow every
- 3:35weekend. I'd be like all in on the AI
- 3:37stuff, staying current, staying ahead.
- 3:40And I just can't do that. Like even just just thinking
- 3:43about this week. It's the last week of school
- 3:44here. My daughter's in preschool.
- 3:46So we had half days yesterday and today we had my husband was
- 3:49out of town for work and it's just like constant
- 3:52interruptions, constant interruptions.
- 3:54And so I get frustrated and, and Joe, Joe's probably going to
- 3:57laugh because he's, he would probably say I just need to
- 3:59delegate more. This has been his feedback for
- 4:01me always. But I like, I want to be
- 4:03thinking about this company all day, every day.
- 4:05Like it's that interesting to me.
- 4:06And I think that I have a unique perspective in terms of being
- 4:09able to to like, I feel like I know what needs to be done in a
- 4:13lot of areas of the company and I just don't have the time to do
- 4:15it. That's strategy.
- 4:16No, I'm kidding. I'm messing around.
- 4:19Sounds like you need a wife. It sounds like you need a wife.
- 4:23But Rishabh Rishabh totally disagreed with me.
- 4:25Yeah, Yeah. I don't, I don't think that's I,
- 4:27I can, I see we will never know the incrementality of your
- 4:32ability to understand what needs to happen in the company because
- 4:36there was no holdout and. It's really good.
- 4:41And I think that the here's. Here's what I've observed, at
- 4:44least my, my, my, my reflection, at least on myself is a lot of
- 4:51the ideas that I have are because I'm doing something like
- 4:56my body is doing something else. My mind is doing something else.
- 4:59But in the background, you're still processing, right?
- 5:01Because like you can't really get yourself out of it when
- 5:03you're so deep in the company either as the founder or see,
- 5:09and then whatever your favorite letters are after that it, your
- 5:13job is to like build a company. That's the job, right?
- 5:15And, and if that's the job, then it's just like you're, it's,
- 5:17it's always there. I, I don't, I find it hard to
- 5:20believe that actually. In fact, I would say on days
- 5:24when I'm fully back-to-back, I have no good ideas.
- 5:27Like if I observe this morning, it's like 11:00 for me now.
- 5:30I've had no good ideas all day. And it's because I've been
- 5:33back-to-back so far. But this afternoon, similar to
- 5:35you, it's the last week of school.
- 5:37So I'm going to go to a TK graduation and I'm going to
- 5:40promise you during that TK graduation, something is going
- 5:43to bubble up and I'm going to be like, thank God I'm at this TK
- 5:46graduation. A work thought you think you do
- 5:48good work thinking when you're with the kids.
- 5:50It's like anything else. It's like processing.
- 5:52No matter what you do, it's either processing in the
- 5:54background or you can like when you're out doing things, you
- 5:58always have moments in between. You always have moments in
- 6:01between. And so I just, I just don't.
- 6:03I don't you don't buy that you're fully disconnected, I
- 6:06think. I mean, at least I have found
- 6:07that to be literally impossible to do.
- 6:09Yeah, but that's a problem too, because I have the same problem.
- 6:13Like when I'm with my kids, I'm thinking about my work, and
- 6:15that's a problem. It's just like I feel like they
- 6:18don't get the attention from me that they deserve either.
- 6:21Like being fully present with a 1/3 and five year old is very
- 6:25challenging when it's just like this.
- 6:28This stuff that's really interesting to me intellectually
- 6:29is just constantly spinning in my head.
- 6:31So I don't know, I understand what you're saying.
- 6:33Like I, I think I'm kind of the same way.
- 6:36I find myself if I have a lot of time to focus on something, I
- 6:39find myself like almost doing too much sometimes.
- 6:42Like going down rabbit holes that really weren't productive.
- 6:45I do agree on that side of things and like getting out of
- 6:48that can be helpful and I do find myself working constantly
- 6:52but I wish I wasn't and I don't know how to turn that off.
- 6:55I, I, I mean, what, what Rashab is talking about is I think it's
- 6:59a really common pattern with like creatives and like from
- 7:01like my academic life, researchers, engineers.
- 7:04There's like that unconscious back of the head work that's
- 7:07happening right when you take breaks.
- 7:09But you don't you, it's, you don't have to be like still
- 7:14actively thinking about it. Like those things will just pop
- 7:17up. But like, cuz I run, I run in
- 7:18the same thing. Like actually like me, me and my
- 7:20wife are. There's a whole thing about how
- 7:22much I look at my phone when I'm with my 10 month old.
- 7:25And so like putting the phone away, being really present with
- 7:27him, I still like, might stand up after playing with him and be
- 7:30like, oh, like I, I just thought of something.
- 7:33But yeah, like the and yes. And the like, when you do get
- 7:38deep focus time, it's so easy to go down rabbit holes.
- 7:41I find myself really often when I'm about to like go into some
- 7:43deep work time, I'm like, OK, I only have a couple hours of this
- 7:46a week. What can I do?
- 7:47And I like, I, I sit down and I say, like, OK, like, what is,
- 7:50what am I going to do for this block that I know will get
- 7:52something really effective out on the, on the back end rather
- 7:55than just, I mean, I will say there is, there's totally value
- 7:58for play. I think that's where like
- 7:59experiencing AI right now, great.
- 8:01If we're talking about understanding, thinking about
- 8:03problems and solutions with AI, like play is a really important
- 8:05part of it cuz we're all just figuring it out.
- 8:07And I've had the biggest breakthroughs and learnings just
- 8:09playing with AI, messing around on my own like equipment and
- 8:12stuff. There's gonna be some science to
- 8:14this, right? Like why is Rashabs divided
- 8:17attention sometimes more effective than his divide
- 8:20undivided attention? Are you have limited resources
- 8:22because you're occupied doing something else and you're not
- 8:24proactively doing. You can imagine like in the
- 8:26process of play, that's all the 2nd order effects of, oh, I just
- 8:29discovered this in the process of, you know, exploring, right?
- 8:33And that's influencing decisions, right?
- 8:35Changes in direction. So yeah, there's gonna be some
- 8:38science to this. Job there is.
- 8:41Absolutely is. I don't, no.
- 8:42No, there is, There is. So there's a bunch of studies.
- 8:44There's a study about like walking while doing work, so
- 8:48that's what I was. Thinking when you were
- 8:49explaining it. Yeah, like when you're walking,
- 8:51you're more, you get more creative ideas.
- 8:54There's like plenty of studies about intersections of like
- 8:58different fields. So like when you're thinking
- 9:00about one thing and then you intersect, it was something
- 9:01else, you get more creative ideas.
- 9:03There's now, I mean, like the specific thing of like, has
- 9:07someone conducted a study about like spending time with kids
- 9:09having in fact, I don't know, but all of the ingredients are
- 9:12supportive in actual science. This is like not a yeah, this is
- 9:16like not, not, not unstudied. Like the ingredients are not
- 9:20unstudied. You know, what's a better time
- 9:22than in a podcast for conjecture?
- 9:24Could it be that salience bubbles up because like if
- 9:27you're working and your deep work and you're going into the
- 9:29nitty gritty of like something that needs to be solved now or
- 9:32you're pulled in all the directions, you know, Rashad,
- 9:34you're in an office as like 50 people that want your attention
- 9:37at any given time. That might be like, you know, a
- 9:40low number compared to the amount of people actually want
- 9:42your time. Whereas when you're with your
- 9:43kids and, you know, it's taking up very little of your mental
- 9:45bandwidth, maybe what's salient and what's important is allowed
- 9:48to bubble up to the surface. Let's call that science.
- 9:51Yeah, I was very scientific. But Olivia, is your experience
- 9:55like this? Part of the problem I have with
- 9:57having little kids is like, let's say it's Friday and
- 10:01there's something I really feel like I need to get done this
- 10:03week. I want to be with my kids all
- 10:05weekend. I won this thing like live out
- 10:09doing something all of next week.
- 10:11And then you've got like this time to do it and you get
- 10:13interrupted. You don't get it done.
- 10:14And now it's like feels like 3-4 days later, you're actually
- 10:16getting this thing accomplished that you wanted to do today,
- 10:18which you could have done if you didn't have or distracting you.
- 10:23Like I experienced that kind of stuff a lot.
- 10:24I don't know if that's kind of if you experienced that as well,
- 10:27but. Totally.
- 10:28I mean, in Rashad probably thinks this too, is there are
- 10:31people who say like, I'm more productive with kids.
- 10:35I think like I don't subscribe to the people pushing back on
- 10:39the argument that that that kids are a distraction for for
- 10:43founders. But I actually, I just like
- 10:45objectively think I was doing better work five years ago than
- 10:48I am today. Like it, it was better.
- 10:51Like I know it was better. I was putting more thought into
- 10:53it. I just don't feel like I have
- 10:54time to like get into a deep low state and like put together a
- 10:57framework for how we might need to approach a problem.
- 11:00So I don't know, I, I think I might be, I might be the outlier
- 11:04here. But Jeremiah, you, you said
- 11:06something else, which is like mom guilt.
- 11:08Like when I'm with my kids, even when I put my phone away, I'm
- 11:11still thinking about work. And like, I kind of, I think
- 11:15that I think that the, there's probably a more positive way to,
- 11:21to, to like work it into my process versus feeling guilty
- 11:24about the thoughts that come, you know?
- 11:27Do you guys think there's been a bit of a collapse in leverage,
- 11:30right, with just how much what individual people can do?
- 11:33Because like before, the answer was clear.
- 11:34You would get someone else to to do these things and you could
- 11:37enjoy your life, right? Enjoy spending time with your
- 11:40kids. It's probably, you know, if you
- 11:42want so much more powerful now with AI, exactly how you'd
- 11:45prefer to spend your time, right?
- 11:46Always with your kids, kind of right, you know, within reason.
- 11:49And there wouldn't be a discontentment about, you know,
- 11:53splitting your time between your kids and all of the amazing
- 11:55things that you could be doing to the business.
- 11:57So, yeah. Is that like I'm, is this a bit
- 11:59of a collapse in leverage for operators?
- 12:02You know, and this kind of reminds me, oh, I've got a loop
- 12:04back into house here. You know, what you guys do is so
- 12:07technical, right? And it really, you know, to
- 12:10think that it could be done by just humans without software
- 12:14might be very ambitious, like a nice way to think about it.
- 12:17But really it's like the combination of incredible humans
- 12:19and incredible software, right? But if I'm understanding it
- 12:22correctly, and then you know what you do with that
- 12:25information, who do you get it to, right?
- 12:26You get it to the wrong person at the organization.
- 12:28And it's not going to be used as adaptively as it could be.
- 12:30You get it to the right person or you get it to the machine,
- 12:33the software, and maybe you've channeled that information to
- 12:37where it can be used most adaptively for the business.
- 12:39What I mean by this is that I used to say to people I really
- 12:42actually don't care about like looking at the tracking, I want
- 12:45Meta to know what the tracking, you know, the best information,
- 12:48right? Because who cares what I think?
- 12:49Like Meta is the one delivering all of those impressions on
- 12:52behalf of, you know, our businesses.
- 12:54So we need to get that information to Meta.
- 12:56I don't need to see it. So yeah.
- 12:58What do you guys think about this?
- 12:59There was a few things. Collapse of leverage, flow of
- 13:01information to the people that it matters most.
- 13:03And then actually just to the places where it matters most.
- 13:06That could be software, machine learning and AI.
- 13:09Can I say something slightly spicy?
- 13:11The Joe made this comment of like Olivia or Olivia said, like
- 13:15Joe says I should delegate more. And I think that the critical
- 13:18problem with AI especially is sometimes you'd rather build an
- 13:22agent than tell someone on the team.
- 13:25And that's just true. Now, like agents are pretty good
- 13:29and like, I don't know if you listen to like Jason Lemkin at
- 13:33all. I mean, he's the most extreme
- 13:35about this, but it's like agents are better than a lot of people,
- 13:38like a lot at particular tasks, especially when well directed.
- 13:43Now, the problem is that they need consistent direction from
- 13:45you. They're not a, they're not
- 13:46actually autonomous. They're, they're like, you need
- 13:49to like constantly nudge update the memory files update because
- 13:52like, because like you're giving a constant context.
- 13:55And I think that that's actually the, the core problem is that we
- 13:59don't know how to operate. We're like all figuring it out
- 14:02in real time. And I'm, I'm curious if you
- 14:03would, you would agree with this?
- 14:05The man, the number of times I think to myself, like the output
- 14:09of this, of this task is worse than an agent that I could
- 14:12build. And then I just build the agent
- 14:13and prove to myself whether or not that's true is very high now
- 14:17very high. And I think that that's actually
- 14:19the re. I mean, the reason to not
- 14:21delegate is because, Jack, the way, the way I think about your
- 14:23leverage question is leverage is no longer human to other humans.
- 14:28It's like there's this piece of technology now that can compete
- 14:31with the human pretty well for a huge amount of tasks.
- 14:35It's a huge amount, not a small amount.
- 14:38Well, this is this is part of where like I, I definitely agree
- 14:41with Olivia on this because I have, let's say, 40 to 50 hours
- 14:45a week of time that's dedicated to my family, which is time
- 14:48where I can't be reliably delegating things.
- 14:50And in a world where anything can be happening at any like
- 14:53around the clock, that is a bottleneck.
- 14:56I mean, I'm already a bottleneck half the time because of the
- 14:58fact that like I have so many things that I'm responsible for,
- 15:02but now I, I have like these blocks of time that I can't take
- 15:04action within those blocks of time, at least not reliably.
- 15:06Sometimes I can sneak away for 15 minutes to go do something,
- 15:09but it's not like a reliable thing.
- 15:11Whereas I didn't have kids. That block of time is probably
- 15:14like, you know, 5 to 10 hours a week of dedicated like, Hey,
- 15:17wife and I are going to go on the state or do this or do that.
- 15:21And the rest of the time is kind of like, OK, I can just operate
- 15:23fully within that amount of time.
- 15:24So I think that's like, for me, that's the biggest challenge
- 15:27with having kids. And I, I think the, I think I'm
- 15:29way better as a operator post kids because I've learned how to
- 15:33use my time more effectively. But I probably will be better in
- 15:3610 years than I am now when I don't have as much of that just
- 15:40like constant demand for my attention, which I like, by the
- 15:43way. I want, I want that.
- 15:44I want my children to want to be around me.
- 15:46Just to be very clear about that if they ever listen to those 10
- 15:48years from now. But but it will be different and
- 15:52it'll be easier in that context to just have to not be a
- 15:55bottleneck. Dude, they're smart enough to
- 15:57not listen. They're going to use Gemini to
- 15:59summarize what you said, Yeah. Exactly.
- 16:01They're going to go searching when they're old enough, be
- 16:03like, what are all the awful things my parents have said
- 16:04about me publicly? Yeah, I think, I think there's
- 16:06this this discussion or like the argument over, hey, like how
- 16:10much to delegate. Now you have these tools that
- 16:12like can do better than maybe a person doing it manually or
- 16:15versus versus those people you could delegate to now have those
- 16:20tools too, right. And they could be more
- 16:22effective. The thing that I think about
- 16:24when I'm trying to balance this of like, do I just ask quad or
- 16:26do I ask like one of my team members to go do this is like
- 16:29what what is the final output do I need?
- 16:31Do I just like need a report to read, OK, I can probably get
- 16:35that from Claude or do I just need to like go and learn some
- 16:37methodology or some do some research?
- 16:39Sure, Claude. But if it's if it's something
- 16:41where I need to go and and change the system or I need to
- 16:45go and like get adoption, like hey, like the rest of the team
- 16:47needs to be doing something this way or something like that.
- 16:50Like there is more more swing through that you need and that
- 16:54you, I think like you as an operator or manager, like
- 16:56Rashad, we were just talking about being in back to backs all
- 16:58day. Like there is an extra amount of
- 17:01just people work needed to I think fully land some things and
- 17:05judging ahead of time. Is this going to take people to
- 17:07fully land or is in like the risk that I see is, oh, hey, I
- 17:11got the agent to like write something, say this is our new
- 17:14process for this. And then I ship it out and
- 17:16people look at it, be able to tell like that was very heavily
- 17:18AI written. How real is this?
- 17:20And so if you're trying to drive adoption on your team, you
- 17:23really need to think about, do I need to be having meetings?
- 17:26Do I need to have someone to like finally run this down and
- 17:28make sure I get adoption or not? This is what I mean by the flow
- 17:32of information and the collapse of leverage there.
- 17:33And I'll bring up the analogy of house again, because if you get
- 17:36that information that you get from house, that's useful for
- 17:39the, for the organization, it's adaptive to inform decision
- 17:42making and you give it to the wrong person, it's not good,
- 17:45right? It might actually be useless.
- 17:47It might just be expensive, right?
- 17:49Whereas if you give it to the right person, it might be
- 17:51adaptive for the business, might be actually, you know, extremely
- 17:53important, right? And you know, this is like
- 17:55delegating that work to someone else or doing it yourself,
- 17:59right? You might be as you're thinking,
- 18:00oh, well, I could get someone else to build the agent for me.
- 18:02But there's a difference with founders.
- 18:03And maybe This is why there's tension between my personal life
- 18:05and work. You know, what you're working on
- 18:07in your business comes up. It's because I don't know about
- 18:09you guys, but nearly all of the founders that I meet have such
- 18:12an aggressive bias to action. And they're so in it, right?
- 18:17Is their life right? They are.
- 18:19And then this might not be found as these are people, you know,
- 18:20founding members as well, people who have that high agency.
- 18:25And they're just so consumed by what it is that they're
- 18:28building, and they really believe in it.
- 18:29But yeah, I think it's hard sometimes to delegate,
- 18:31especially if you can do so much now by delegating to an agent,
- 18:34right? But that flowing with the
- 18:35information piece is interesting to me because I think there's
- 18:37very few people who I can actually operate in ambiguous
- 18:41territory where they actually, you know, where we're playing,
- 18:44right? We don't actually know what step
- 18:47one, Step 2, step three are. We're just figuring out as we go
- 18:49along, right? Right, when we were preparing
- 18:51for this, Olivia reminded me of something that I said like a few
- 18:55years ago in our, in our, one of our leadership Slack channels,
- 18:58like this information flow, Is it going to get to the right
- 19:00person? Can they even act on it?
- 19:01Like a founder can always do take whatever action they want,
- 19:03right? But it is VP or head of
- 19:06whatever, whatever the right person to get this information
- 19:08and take the action. Something that that like we
- 19:11thought about and we're really conscious of is that in the
- 19:13world, the state of the world where we're successful, we will
- 19:16have had to like create a change in the industry of how people
- 19:19are taking it and making decisions on this information.
- 19:21Because you can give out that information of like, Hey, here's
- 19:23recommendations and actions that you can take.
- 19:25And it's the kinds of stuff that people are used to not touching
- 19:28at any sort of high frequency. We even still have conversations
- 19:31where people say, oh, I can't move that line item or what have
- 19:33you. And so that that value just
- 19:35dies, right? That opportunity just goes away.
- 19:38And so really like, and I think this is true for any sort of AI
- 19:41system or any recommendation system we're going to be putting
- 19:43in, we're going to have to think about like how organizations are
- 19:47going to have to restructure around it.
- 19:49OK. At our last cab, the most
- 19:53intense conversation was around who inside the organization like
- 19:57of our customers are actually going to make the shift with
- 20:02what is demanded of them now that we have AI versus who is
- 20:05not. And that I think is like the
- 20:06critical issue. It is not just by the way, I
- 20:08don't have any belief that like hey, we're going to have like
- 20:11mass unemployment over time or anything like that.
- 20:14But what I am saying is that there's a set of organizations
- 20:16where with AI like ours, like your guys is.
- 20:20Where AI adoption is very high, especially in a tech company, it
- 20:23has to be and, and so we're going to see it first, which we
- 20:26have with Square and so on and so forth, where there's a set of
- 20:31people who understand the new job and there's a set of people
- 20:33who don't understand the new job.
- 20:35And it turns out when the cost of taking an action is very
- 20:38like, or doing a task is low, because you can build an agent
- 20:41to do it, that the expectation on judgment goes up a lot and
- 20:45the expectation of understanding business impact goes up a lot.
- 20:48And not everyone is trained to do that, right.
- 20:50And so now what's happening is inside of every organization
- 20:53you're over, you have to over lever on those two skills and
- 20:55under lever on the like action oriented skills, because the
- 20:59action oriented skills in a, in a, in a information business are
- 21:02done by agents. It's, it's like kind of not that
- 21:04hard. And and so how are you guys
- 21:06thinking about not only how you will like continue to build
- 21:10house the organization in that content?
- 21:12I mean, then I'm happy to share for us.
- 21:14Like, I have no problem being transparent.
- 21:15I say the same thing to my team. But like, how are you guys
- 21:17thinking about it for house? And then how do you then
- 21:20communicate that to your customer?
- 21:22Because like, yeah, it's not the, it's not as simple, like,
- 21:25let's just say you give your customer some sort of action
- 21:27layer, whatever that means, the total amount.
- 21:28I mean, by the way, your customers, most of them, they're
- 21:31like, hey, I've got to go from like ChatGPT.
- 21:33You're asking, you're asking them to leap 2 steps from I use
- 21:37chat GPD to I am using an agentic orchestration system.
- 21:40They're not going to leave 2 steps, guys.
- 21:42That's just not going to happen. They have to walk those next two
- 21:45steps of like, now I know what cowork means.
- 21:47I understand how interacting with agents works.
- 21:49I understand that I need to interact with it every day.
- 21:51I understand that I need to give a context.
- 21:52Then they're going to go to agents and be like, OK, I
- 21:54understand that there's a thing called memory.
- 21:56I understand, like I am understanding how these systems
- 21:59work before I get all the way to agentic orchestration.
- 22:01But you're going to show up with this thing that is like 3 steps
- 22:04ahead of them, right? So, so you have to tell the
- 22:07executive at your customer, we got to do some training or we
- 22:09got to hire some new people. What are what are you going to
- 22:12tell them? Yeah, I would, I would say that
- 22:14there was two things that Rashad brought out there.
- 22:16One like how do we think about internally what, what we need to
- 22:19change in terms of like what we're hiring for coaching,
- 22:21looking for and then also how we're working with the
- 22:23customers. I'm going to just I'm going to
- 22:24follow Olivia on the like how we're thinking about it with
- 22:26interacting with customers, but we can come back to the internal
- 22:29story if you if you all want to another pitch.
- 22:31So talking about how we're interfacing, working with
- 22:34customers, I really like how Zach teed this up.
- 22:37He had a recent article on architect, which is right like
- 22:39Rashad were talking about jumping straight to like AAI
- 22:41orchestrator. Like that's what essentially
- 22:43we'd be doing if we just like handed architect over to
- 22:45somebody. Where in finance these kinds of
- 22:49systems have existed for a while, like high frequency
- 22:52trading, all of that. People are not too scared of
- 22:53that. Something like why is that in
- 22:56finance? You know how much money you made
- 22:58or lost at the end of any given cycle and marketing you can do
- 23:02all the work, but at the end of the day, you are not 100% sure
- 23:06what drove what and what the marginal returns on any given
- 23:09thing are. And so it is ambiguous even like
- 23:12not just like what that's the place are ambiguous, but then
- 23:15what that's even paid off are still going to be ambiguous.
- 23:17Our job is to try to make it as as clear and reliable as
- 23:20possible. But how do we do that?
- 23:21It needs everything we do needs to be explainable.
- 23:23We need to be able to trace like where the recommendations come
- 23:26from. And that's why we've we're like
- 23:28been slowly building up a more like platform first approach.
- 23:31There have been people that have been trying to build like very
- 23:34machine learning driven, like decision multi armed bandit type
- 23:38tools that just didn't really get traction because they were
- 23:42just, they were just starting all the way to the at the end
- 23:44problem of like, yeah, let's just go.
- 23:45But the signals that they were building on, I mean, everybody
- 23:47intuitively knew that they they're they're just they're
- 23:49noisy, they're biased. It's not capturing everything
- 23:51that we need to. And so that's why house is like,
- 23:53hey, let's start with experimentation.
- 23:55Let's use that to calibrate all of this messy information that
- 23:59we are getting from the platforms, from marketing mixed
- 24:02models, and then build the orchestration on top of that so
- 24:06that we can show our work all the way up that chain, right?
- 24:08And talk about it that way. And I think that's how you drive
- 24:11the adoption for something that's like as ambiguous because
- 24:14like it feels like a black box and it's a big leap.
- 24:17Really. It's there's a human element of,
- 24:19of bringing someone along the way, like having a
- 24:21transformation agenda whenever you come in with a customer and
- 24:25in hand holding them through, like, hey, this is where this is
- 24:27coming from. Here's where all the information
- 24:28is. And also here's where we're
- 24:29going to show we talk a lot. I mean, Olivia and I just got
- 24:31out of the conversation just about an hour ago of how are we
- 24:36showing and demonstrating the value of once you take the
- 24:38recommendations? How much did you get out of it?
- 24:41And do you think who at the customer is most likely to
- 24:44change their way of working first?
- 24:46So it sounds like you have to go to the founder CFO exact level.
- 24:50How does it percolate from there?
- 24:54I think that they're, we've like, like Cody is just such a
- 24:56good example. Like Cody is Cody from Jones Rd.
- 24:59Beauty is a design partner on the system, on architect.
- 25:02And it's like the, I think the marketing team, when we, when
- 25:07I've talked to marketers about why not use an agentic system,
- 25:11they start to name all of the things in terms of business
- 25:14context and all the things in their head that they uniquely
- 25:18kind of understand about the business around like reasons why
- 25:22they need a human in the loop. And I remember being at a, at a
- 25:25summit, I was at Dita Ski Jeremiah was there.
- 25:28I saw him like kind of pushing on this of like, why can't a
- 25:31system know your promotion schedule?
- 25:33Why can't a system know your new product strategy or your new
- 25:36product launches? Why can't a system understand
- 25:38your seasonality? And so I think that what I'm,
- 25:42what I'm sensing is it, it might perhaps need to be more top down
- 25:47because a marketer is feeling like they like, what is the
- 25:51value that I bring if I'm handing over the keys to an
- 25:54agentic system? When in reality, we know it
- 25:57could just give them more leverage.
- 25:58But I'm, I'm feeling like it's not something that the marketing
- 26:01team is bringing back into the organization.
- 26:04It's a push from the organization to get more
- 26:06efficient is like what I'm seeing.
- 26:08And, and it's, it's not even a push.
- 26:10It's like permission to do this because it feels so risky for
- 26:16the marketing team. Like there's, there's so much
- 26:17that could go wrong. There's the extra 0.
- 26:20Like I don't think they feel the safety to go take risks in this
- 26:24world. And so that's where it's where
- 26:26I'm seeing like the the founder who really wants to move into
- 26:28this is just moving so, so fast and they're not getting caught
- 26:32up on like what can go wrong and what does this mean for me
- 26:36personally? And I guess this kind of comes
- 26:38back to my last question about like where is that information
- 26:40most adaptively used in the organizations that you serve,
- 26:42right? If you think about a human, what
- 26:44are they doing? Create, read, update, delete,
- 26:46right, in an ad account, maybe right, or in the, you know, the
- 26:50marketing operations of the business.
- 26:52But like, you know, AI can do so much more.
- 26:54We were just talking about it in terms of leverage, you know, how
- 26:56much execution it can have, but just in in terms of the amount
- 26:59of processing, right, that that can happen.
- 27:01That is outside of what's possible for a human.
- 27:04You know, I would imagine that the information that you get out
- 27:07of house could be so much more adaptively used by Meta.
- 27:10This is often like a lack of clarity at the executive level
- 27:14on like what is the goal of the of the organization.
- 27:16And like the if you think of a head of growth and their title
- 27:20has growth in the title, they might be gold on growing top
- 27:24line revenue. You know, like the, the heads of
- 27:26growth often sign most of our contracts, but it's, it is a, it
- 27:31is a muscle that requires the founder to understand and be on
- 27:36board with the approach in a, in a, in a very big way.
- 27:39It's such a big shift that a marketer is just not be able to
- 27:43get it done alone. So.
- 27:45Well, if you listen to Taylor Holiday out of growth as the CEO
- 27:48anyways, so. Yeah, sure.
- 27:51Yeah. That's just that's just hiding
- 27:53it. Yeah.
- 27:55And anything to to pile on, you know, like our our company goes
- 27:58nowhere without marketing leaders who really do care about
- 28:02this and it like and, and adopt and people are differentiating
- 28:06themselves in the labor market by taking this stance, unlike
- 28:09this is what they really care about.
- 28:11And so there's absolutely leaders out there that we work
- 28:13with that that really care and are like focused on getting it
- 28:16right. And they push us too.
- 28:18They, they, you know, they, they call BS, Not that we're giving
- 28:21ABS, but like, they really push like, hey, this doesn't make
- 28:23sense for this reason. Look closer.
- 28:24Before we lose the topic on the internal operations, like
- 28:27there's a bunch of, I think the most common audience for this is
- 28:30like a bunch of other software operators.
- 28:33And so I, I am curious, Joe, about the internal operations,
- 28:36like how you guys are deciding to run the company internally
- 28:40and what are the expectations that you're setting with people.
- 28:43And yeah, like are you, I mean, a different way of saying like
- 28:48Olivia has trouble delegating is like every executive is an IC
- 28:51and the best executives are ICS. And we, we're experiencing that
- 28:55in a very big way. And so I'm curious how you guys
- 28:58are thinking about what it means for how you operate a software
- 29:00company right now? I think there's one the like at
- 29:06the beginning of the year, what we did was we, we brought on.
- 29:09I hear a lot of companies didn't do this and we did.
- 29:11We, we gave everybody access to everything we said.
- 29:14Here's Claude, here's Cursor, here's chat, here's Gemini.
- 29:19Go play like do what you want to do, try out new things.
- 29:23And I think something that was really important in driving
- 29:25adoption, like in those at the start of the year too, was
- 29:28leaders going in and trying things and then showing them to
- 29:30the team. Hey, I did, this is how I'm
- 29:32operating. This is why I do like really,
- 29:33really showing it. I started taking transcripts for
- 29:37all the meetings that I was having with folks and, and
- 29:40putting that into my, you know what it used to be called Zetto
- 29:43cast and then it was second brain.
- 29:44Now I think they're called Carpathy graphs or something
- 29:46like that. Now, whatever the buzzword is
- 29:48for, for building your your second brain for your agent to
- 29:51use, showing people that I was doing that, creating artifacts
- 29:55off of that, talking to people about skills.
- 29:58And so really like tons and tons of experimentation out in the
- 30:01open and showing your team that you're doing that and giving
- 30:03them free rein. Don't, don't, don't really give
- 30:05them handcuffs, you know, within like data safety and security.
- 30:09And something else that we did too is that like, at least for
- 30:12my team specifically acknowledged really early on,
- 30:15like, hey, like the, the expectations are like the needs
- 30:18for really, really great, like execution of writing science
- 30:21code and data analysis, like quad can do that for you.
- 30:25What what I need is much more judgement.
- 30:27You all are moving up the value chain.
- 30:29And there's two like, there's two different ways that people,
- 30:32I think sort of react to like the execution becomes really
- 30:34cheap. They just like explode out with
- 30:36all the different things that they could do and they just go
- 30:38do them. And so me and me and, and one of
- 30:42my directs, we wrote a doc that's that has a picture of
- 30:44Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park where he says all you could
- 30:48think about was what you could do, but you didn't stop to think
- 30:51about whether or not you should. And that's so it's like really
- 30:54going back to the judgement is really, really valuable now,
- 30:57right? And making that very clear to
- 30:59the team that, hey, like the expectations of your role has
- 31:02now shifted judgement and how you use these things and what
- 31:04you decide to do with them is going to be how you're going to
- 31:06be evaluated. And I, I really, I think product
- 31:10management, product strategy, sort of practice and expertise
- 31:14is really helpful for teaching folks how to do that.
- 31:17And so referencing a lot of the canonical product management
- 31:20books, good strategy, bad strategy, Teresa Torres's
- 31:23continuous discovery habits, like pushing those stuff out to
- 31:26folks of like really teaching them like, hey, here's how you
- 31:28think about judging what you should do as opposed to just
- 31:32like picking the thing that you see you could do.
- 31:34Oh wow, so you're investing the time to teach people and you're
- 31:37like telling them where the books are?
- 31:39Yeah, absolutely. And you have the.
- 31:41Time to do that. In a former life, I want to be a
- 31:43liberal arts college professor. So maybe this is just my bias,
- 31:46but I think that's like you. So like my reaction to a good
- 31:50executives or ICS, yes, but also we need to be teaching and
- 31:55setting the tone for the whole team of like, hey, like this is
- 31:57how we have to operate. This is what you need to learn.
- 31:59Like if the because at a certain point you have the kind of
- 32:04people you want, you need to create the people that you want
- 32:06at a certain point in a certain point of view, if you're being
- 32:08that transformational. I think there's, there's this is
- 32:10like so this funny phenomenon of like, you see all these graphs
- 32:14of like the most number of job openings at the same time as the
- 32:17all of these large layoffs, which is easily reconciled by
- 32:21the following statement, which is I don't have the time to
- 32:24teach these people. So I'm going to go find the
- 32:26people who are predisposed to doing it this way.
- 32:28That's how you easily reconcile those two graphs, right?
- 32:31All I'm all I'm asking and it's genuinely a question.
- 32:35There's two different things you can teach people.
- 32:37What is you can teach people how to learn, which is good
- 32:39strategy, bad strategy. Teach them how to be a product
- 32:42map that you're teaching them how to learn.
- 32:44And you are teaching them by virtue of doing the work
- 32:47yourself and showing them how to use the tools, the actual
- 32:50actions that you are taking. So you're teaching them both the
- 32:54skill and the knowledge and you're choosing to take that.
- 32:56You're choosing to teach both, which I think is, I just think
- 32:59it's interesting, right? Like you could, you could make a
- 33:01different decision and say, I'm happy to teach the knowledge.
- 33:04I'm not going to teach the skill.
- 33:05I'm going to hire people with the skill.
- 33:07Joe's a good. Joe's a good people leader.
- 33:09Thank. Thank you.
- 33:10Probably be better than me. The, the, the way I see it is
- 33:13that it's, it's much, it's much faster, especially in technical,
- 33:17in technical teams, the hiring lag can be very high.
- 33:19Also, you want to get people who are mission driven, right?
- 33:22This is a big principle in hiring missionaries, not
- 33:23mercenaries. And so if you have people who
- 33:26are mission driven and it's, you could be much faster to get them
- 33:30plugged into like, hey, this is how to operate.
- 33:33Then it could be to kick them to the curb and find someone new
- 33:36who's already working that way. Especially when I'll go back to
- 33:39this, if we're in a transformational moment, I just
- 33:42have a hard time imagining finding people who already
- 33:44operate that way, but also hit the Venn diagram of like
- 33:46technical knowledge that I need. There's a certain extent that we
- 33:49could say like, well, quad has the technical knowledge, but
- 33:51still the whole pruning of the tree of all the things they
- 33:53should do. That judgement does come in with
- 33:55that technical knowledge and experience.
- 33:57You're really challenging me, man.
- 33:59You're making me question a lot of the ways I think about
- 34:01things. Thank you.
- 34:03Joe, you should, I don't know if this is, you should share what
- 34:05we just launched with Dockmaster.
- 34:07Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, it, it, it along with
- 34:10talking about internal usage of AI, we just launched.
- 34:15This was a really big effort with like got got a really big
- 34:18staff IC engineer, our SISO and a bunch of other people involved
- 34:22into essentially setting up the loop of like the software
- 34:26development life cycle. Hey, like cut a ticket with
- 34:29these acceptance criteria and an internal tool called Dockmaster
- 34:33is what called Dockmaster is watching that ticket queue and
- 34:38picking them up and taking it through the whole process of,
- 34:41Hey, is this clear enough? Does this meet all the criteria,
- 34:44blah, blah, blah, blah. Taking all the way to now
- 34:46there's a nice PR ready to go. And like, I think it's like an
- 34:50important principle that like I'm coaching the team on and I
- 34:52think everybody needs to build towards is letting it, letting
- 34:55the AI take the first shot at it.
- 34:57Never ever as a human write the first draft.
- 34:59That's the hardest part for a human in anything, is writing
- 35:01the first draft, taking the first crack at it.
- 35:03Editing is much easier and faster.
- 35:04Let the AI take the first crack at it.
- 35:06The AI is really good at first drafts, especially crappy rough
- 35:09drafts. Yeah, I was very good at that.
- 35:11And so Dockmaster is like is a really nice flow, just like
- 35:14anything that we think is fairly like simple to write out the
- 35:16criteria, especially a lot like front end tweaking, things like
- 35:18that. Just write it outlet AI take the
- 35:20first crack and then thinking about I think the next step is
- 35:24thinking about like 1, you know, a lot of basic stuff, Dr.
- 35:27adoption, like how do we have a feedback loop for that system?
- 35:30So put the feedback loop on top of the loop and and then how do
- 35:35we create systems like that for non engineering stuff?
- 35:38I do I, you know, there's a pattern that you can think about
- 35:41with a bunch of individual contributors have their own clod
- 35:45skills and have all these like different things that they've
- 35:47built in their clod Co works or what have you.
- 35:50To me, I think it's really important to be abstracting away
- 35:53from the foundational models and having an internal system.
- 35:56Like I know that like HQ by by Indigo, I think it's really like
- 36:01big on this. And I really agree with that
- 36:03direction, creating a system where you can really easily
- 36:05share and have those skills, those processes or like those
- 36:09are assets for the company. It shouldn't just be living on
- 36:11people's laptops or like individual cloud instances.
- 36:13Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it should be manageable by
- 36:15team leaders, editable and curated by team leaders.
- 36:18And so how do we create systems or ways that they can access
- 36:20that and curate it that they don't have to go through
- 36:22engineers, let's say like that's a big failure mode that I think
- 36:25that it would be like asking an engineer to like change a cell
- 36:28in an Excel sheet for you. Like, we need to get away from
- 36:30that as fast as possible. It's absurd.
- 36:32I'm the coaching thing is really interesting to me because this
- 36:35is I think about similarly in that I want people to like for
- 36:41their benefit and for the benefit of the company.
- 36:43I want people to learn how to adopt and use these tools.
- 36:48I also think that the speed doesn't matter as much as we
- 36:51think it does, but like there's a, there's an aspect of speed
- 36:57matters for sure, but it's like it never needs to be as fast as
- 37:00we think it does. Like the, the, the way that I
- 37:02think things need to move in my mind, reality is always go
- 37:05slower than that. And I think that's true of
- 37:06markets. I think that's true of like
- 37:08customers adopting your products.
- 37:09What like whatever those things are like that is, that is just
- 37:12how like it doesn't move as fast as you think it's going to.
- 37:15So that's kind of my, my, the way I think about this.
- 37:17And I'm curious, Joe, like when you're talking about the
- 37:19coaching, what I want to know is like how successful it was.
- 37:22What, what do you do you feel like you've gotten people where
- 37:25you want them to go? Do you think there's still a
- 37:26gap? Do you feel like it's like it
- 37:28worked for some people, didn't work for others?
- 37:30I got, I want to know like, because I also understand the
- 37:33benefit of like you go find somebody who, we've done this,
- 37:37we've hired a few people who really who are already doing
- 37:39this. And there is a massive
- 37:42difference in the way that they operate and move compared to the
- 37:44person who's learning how to do this.
- 37:45And so, and it's like it takes a while, I feel like to get to
- 37:48that point. So anyway, I just, I love the
- 37:51theory. I think it's the right theory
- 37:52from my perspective, but I also have seen the success of
- 37:55bringing in outside people. So I'm curious how how it works
- 37:57for you all. I think it's, it's like, not not
- 38:01going to lie, there are mixed results.
- 38:02There's some people that just like jump in, they get it, it
- 38:04clicks. There's some people are a little
- 38:06bit slower and then there's, and there's some people where, you
- 38:09know, you have to repeat yourself.
- 38:10It's just like coaching in any situation.
- 38:13And that becomes like, frankly, it becomes, it starts to become
- 38:16a performance conversation. Then right when you're at, if
- 38:20you're, if you're not responding to feedback and say, you know,
- 38:22the, the, we're talking about the company, the universe, like
- 38:25things are just in a different place.
- 38:26The role changes. We're not in a situation where
- 38:29you can post a job posting and then it's gonna be the same
- 38:31thing for 20 years. That hasn't been true for a very
- 38:33long time. And so then it becomes a
- 38:34performance conversation. Something I will say is that I
- 38:37was after demonstrating the behavior a lot with showing how
- 38:42I was using the tools, I came and checked in and started
- 38:44asking folks directly like, Hey, what are you doing with it?
- 38:48And I was pleasantly surprised and it was with a lot of stuff
- 38:50that, you know, you could think like, oh, like they just like
- 38:52put it together just in time for the bosses.
- 38:54No, no, these are things that had definitely had to have been
- 38:56built well before I asked them. Show me what you've been up to.
- 38:59So I was pleasantly surprised with like how much they were
- 39:01diving in from the skills because they were starting to
- 39:03see the value of themselves. Every good I see, like they know
- 39:06about their BS work that that like is pretty routine and
- 39:10showing them how to how to like automate a lot of that stuff.
- 39:12I think they jump on it pretty quickly.
- 39:14I think, Joe, I'm curious if you're experiencing this in
- 39:17Jeremiah, if you're experiencing this also, I just worry those
- 39:21people who do get it and for whom it does click.
- 39:24I don't think that they want to sit next to the person who is
- 39:27not getting it. I don't actually even, this is
- 39:29my fundamental problem is it's actually nothing to do with my
- 39:32pay. Look, I'm impatient as hell.
- 39:34So like, but ignoring that, let's pretend I was perfectly
- 39:37patient. I was like sage like Joe if I
- 39:40was sage like Joe. The problem is, it doesn't
- 39:42matter what I think. What matters is that there are
- 39:45people on my team yelling at me saying like, come on, seriously
- 39:49like that. That, I think is actually the
- 39:52bigger problem. This is one of the luxuries of
- 39:54having surplus resources. I totally understand where
- 39:56you're coming from, Rashad, by, you know, wanting to hire for
- 39:58these skills because ideally you hire someone who teaches you new
- 40:03things, right? Who comes in and brings
- 40:04something that was missing in the organization beforehand,
- 40:07right? You're not pulling them all up
- 40:09and having to deal with. I don't know a friendlier word
- 40:12than Luddites, but people who don't want to update their
- 40:14processes and then you have to do performance reviews and that
- 40:16why are you in this conversation now, right?
- 40:18The all these, it's expensive. This is really expensive and it
- 40:21only, it's a luxury to only very profitable businesses, right?
- 40:26But I think I think this is true always of like A players want to
- 40:28be around A players. And right now the A players are
- 40:31using this stuff in, in, in, in their work.
- 40:35And so like, I don't think that that's, I agree with Joe.
- 40:37It becomes a performance conversation in the same way
- 40:39that it becomes a performance conversation with any B player
- 40:42at the company. So you just have to hold, you
- 40:44have to hold a high performance bar like the it's, it becomes a
- 40:47performance culture and you need to not shy away from those
- 40:49conversations. Can I offer two things that and
- 40:52you tell me if you agree or disagree?
- 40:54I think there are two two differences to the previous
- 40:56world of performance expectations. 1 is that the
- 40:58difference between an A and AB player used to be 30% and now
- 41:01it's 4X, especially in, in like development, like the
- 41:05differences that you observe because of AI, because it's an
- 41:07execution tool are magnified A tremendous amount, right?
- 41:11Like Joe just said, like people are just producing slop.
- 41:14They used to produce slop anyway.
- 41:16Actually, it's just that they'd produce now 100 times more
- 41:19event. So you're like, Oh my God,
- 41:20that's a lot of slop. OK, so, so, so it's a magnifier.
- 41:24So that's, that's one problem that I'm observing.
- 41:26And the second is that the bar, you used to be able to hold a
- 41:29static bar for at least three years and you could like
- 41:32describe the bar, but the problem is that with the
- 41:34technology changing, the bar is shifting.
- 41:37And so it's, it's like you're constantly being graded on a
- 41:39curve, right? And that curve is shifting
- 41:41because the best people are just moving it further and further
- 41:43up. And I think that those two
- 41:45dynamics are not, are not the same as two years ago, or at
- 41:47least my, my experience of it is not the same as two years ago.
- 41:50I don't know how you would react to that.
- 41:52SO22 statements that you're wondering whether or not we
- 41:55agree with one that the difference between A&B players
- 41:57has grown. Yeah, yeah.
- 41:59I think something that like you said, like before, it was only
- 42:0130%. I think before it was also still
- 42:03multiples, especially we talked about like dragging down the
- 42:06morale of superstars, things like that.
- 42:09I think it was still also like pretty big.
- 42:11But yes, yes, I think it has grown the And then the second
- 42:15part was the expectations are changing quickly.
- 42:20Also agree. I guess what I would say to
- 42:22like, I, I do think that communicating the expectations
- 42:26clearly and coming to a decision of how long you're willing to
- 42:31wait. And it's like that's important
- 42:32in the context of your business and the organization, the team,
- 42:35your ability to replace the talent.
- 42:36It's like, there's many variables here that like I can't
- 42:39dictate for anyone, right? However, something I do strongly
- 42:42believe is that if you, if you create a culture or setting
- 42:45where the expectations can change and you'll act on them
- 42:48before essentially like talking to people or they have like an
- 42:51understanding, it becomes very challenging where people will be
- 42:54like, hey, it's like there's just an axe hanging over my head
- 42:56at any moment. And stress, like we were just
- 42:59talking about the science of creativity and things like that.
- 43:01Like it there is a very clear, documented pattern of stress
- 43:05pushes back on creativity. Totally, totally.
- 43:09This was excellent in ways that I did not expect.
- 43:13Olivia, you brought your chief scientist, but he's like your
- 43:15chief people officer. As I said, he's my Sherpa.
- 43:19Yeah, this is Joe is my Joe is my AI realist.
- 43:23I I think he's, he's very much at the cutting edge of what's
- 43:25possible, but he's very realistic about how we make it
- 43:28work inside of our organization. Now I'm feeling like that.
- 43:31I hope I didn't. I hope I didn't dominate the
- 43:33conversation. If there's anything else that we
- 43:34wanted to talk about, you know, I'm, I'm able to go over.
- 43:37Our whole thing is that we just kind of like, I can often see
- 43:39where it goes so. I also don't think that there's
- 43:42anything more important for operators to hear about than how
- 43:45to manage their organization in this moment of change.
- 43:47So I don't I can't think of a more important topic.
- 43:51I'm not sure if you guys noticed, but I think there was a
- 43:53bit of a through line through the whole conversation about
- 43:54quality of information, right? And that's kind of like what
- 43:56House is about, right? But.
- 43:58I love that Jack knows what we do.
- 44:00Jack, thanks for knowing what. We do.
- 44:01I got to I got to spill the beans.
- 44:03I my full interaction with you guys.
- 44:05I'm sorry, I've never been a customer, but I've opened up
- 44:08this blog so many times using house to do exactly what house
- 44:13is meant to solve and just saying, hey, Jabby Coffee did
- 44:15this thing and maybe you should try it too.
- 44:17But really you need like an individual answer that's based
- 44:19on your actual business. But this article, I can't tell
- 44:22you guys, if you look at like your Google Analytics for like
- 44:24the the the number of times this blog page has been opened, it's
- 44:27me. Oh, I've got to tell our
- 44:29marketing team this is one of my favorites too.
- 44:31I still talk about this one all the time.
- 44:33It's like the most clear example of the power of incrementality
- 44:37is the Javi Coffee case study, so.
- 44:40Yeah, let's get one. Awesome, Jack, one day.
- 44:41Maybe I actually have. To OK.
- 44:44Thanks, Rashad. Thanks so much guys.