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- 0:00That the status quo is no longer acceptable.
- 0:02AI is. This is the big one.
- 0:05I want folks to really understand that this is a
- 0:07categorically new way of work and folks need to start working
- 0:12on it right now. Hello and welcome back to the
- 0:25Retail podcast. Now this conversation is due to
- 0:29a conversation with Jason, who's the current president of the Mac
- 0:32Alliance about influential people in this world of AI.
- 0:37Now Kelly, who you're going to meet in one second, do you can
- 0:40see is in my doing my research. He's probably one of the most
- 0:43influential voices in modern commerce architecture and across
- 0:47his roles at Oracle, ATG, Commerce Tools, and now the next
- 0:52next generation of AI driven innovation, he's probably shaped
- 0:57how global AI leaders think about this new world.
- 1:01Kelly, have I missed anything? I mean, when you lay it out like
- 1:05that, I mean, what are you supposed to say?
- 1:08Yeah. Well, listen, thank you so much
- 1:10for coming onto the podcast. I really do think it's a
- 1:13pleasure and a delight to take a deep dive.
- 1:15Before we get started, what do you, when you do these types of
- 1:20podcasts and only you're going to say, well, what does your
- 1:22community audience want? Well, what do you traditionally
- 1:25want to get across? What would you like the listener
- 1:27to leave this show understanding.
- 1:29That the status quo is no longer acceptable.
- 1:33I think so many folks think that they can just put a little
- 1:35Clippy type assistant on their website and call it a day.
- 1:39And AI is this is the big one. This is the big one.
- 1:42Now it's going to take years and years, but there's already a
- 1:45very stark divide in the labour industry between people who are
- 1:49AI native and can use AI to its fullest extent versus those who
- 1:53don't. And I want folks to really
- 1:55understand that this is not just a smarter Google.
- 1:57This is not just a way to auto complete some code.
- 2:00This is a categorically new way of work and folks need to start
- 2:05working on it right now. What do you think, because
- 2:07obviously through through your extensive experience, you've
- 2:11seen the monolith era, you've seen the headless era, and now
- 2:16it's like the composable Mac era.
- 2:18Are these a natural progression from each one?
- 2:21So if I have been going up, I'm a retailer and I've gone through
- 2:24this process, am I, am I going to have to reinvent my stuff?
- 2:28Am I going to have to like start from scratch?
- 2:30How much of A connection is but is there between these
- 2:33transitions and where the world is going now from a technology
- 2:36perspective? I mean, you have to go back and
- 2:38and look at computer science as as a new industry, as a new
- 2:42field of study. It's relatively brand new.
- 2:45I mean, it's really only been since the 60s maybe and really
- 2:48started to take off in the 90s and 2000s.
- 2:51If you look at computer science versus any other established
- 2:54field, whether it's archaeology or medicine or law or take your
- 2:59pick, they've had decades and decades and decades to come up
- 3:03with best practises, right? If, if, if an engineer needs to
- 3:06go build a bridge, they know how to do that.
- 3:08That's a well established task at this point.
- 3:11And there's not a lot of innovation around the edge.
- 3:13And software is unique in that the entire foundation is all
- 3:16bits and bytes. You can RIP it out and rebuild
- 3:19it. And over time, the technology
- 3:21has improved dramatically, right?
- 3:22Do you remember Bill Gates famously saying 64 kilobytes
- 3:26ought to be enough for anyone? And now in your phone, right, We
- 3:29practically have a TB of, you know, of storage.
- 3:33So it's matured. And historically, back in the
- 3:3690s, it made a lot of sense to have monolithic applications
- 3:40because the complexity was on the inside and networking was
- 3:44really slow and really painful. So there is no means of like
- 3:48exposing little bits of functionality up to the world
- 3:51because you just couldn't call a function remotely.
- 3:54It didn't work. So that incentivized everyone to
- 3:57build big applications that did a little bit of everything.
- 4:00And then we saw the rise of headless.
- 4:02My boss at Commerce Tools, founder, CEO Derek Horig,
- 4:06invented the headless and the mid 2000s changed the industry.
- 4:10And headless was pretty revolutionary in that the web
- 4:14head was decoupled from the back end.
- 4:16And when I first started building in a large scale
- 4:20e-commerce websites, it was pretty crazy because you
- 4:22literally embed business logic right in the UI, right?
- 4:25Right. In your JSP file you would have
- 4:27business logic. And now the thought of that, it
- 4:30just, you know, makes your skin crawl, right?
- 4:32Because you would just never do that anymore.
- 4:34So headless was a big innovation.
- 4:36And then on top of that, microservices and microservices
- 4:40is another iteration of headless.
- 4:42It's further iteration. With headless, you can have a
- 4:44monolithic back end or microservices back end.
- 4:46Microservices are the better way to do headless because now you
- 4:49have little applications that each own their own domain, their
- 4:52own data, their own everything. So you can just update your
- 4:55shopping cart API with its own application or just your
- 4:58promotions API or your pricing. You can go in and make granular
- 5:02changes to business logic and functionality without
- 5:05redeploying the whole application.
- 5:06And now with AI, it's even better.
- 5:09It's, it's almost like like the headless we always wanted
- 5:13because now you just expose up your data and functionality via
- 5:16model context protocol, which then calls the APIs.
- 5:20And now AI is the giant head. It's the orchestrator, it's the
- 5:23everything. And it just magically knows how
- 5:25to call that API's. So feels like we're, we're
- 5:29evolving towards something a little bit more stable.
- 5:32Although who knows, maybe 20 years from now the kids will be
- 5:34talking about how antiquated Mach was back in the day.
- 5:37But still, this feels pretty cutting edge.
- 5:39We've got the tech to support it.
- 5:40You know, you can make remote calls on a heartbeat.
- 5:42Everyone's exposing MCP now, or everybody should be.
- 5:46And with AI, you know, MCP pairs really, really nicely with it.
- 5:50What I'm hoping this this isn't being too topical, but I'd love
- 5:54your view, just your personal view on MCP, sorry.
- 5:58In terms of UC, the universal commerce protocol that Google
- 6:01has released, I'm just curious what your thoughts are on that.
- 6:05Do you think it's something because like Amazon was out, but
- 6:07now it's in and a few of the major platforms are going down
- 6:11that route? I'm just curious on your
- 6:13thoughts on it. Well, if we want to go back to
- 6:16what is it, November of last year, Stripe teamed up with Open
- 6:21AI and came up with a Gentech commerce protocol and they did
- 6:25so with, as far as I can tell no participation from industry
- 6:28whatsoever. Their attitude is like, hey,
- 6:31we're open AI, we're just going to do it.
- 6:33And clearly their lack of, of inexperience in the industry
- 6:38caused ACP to be half baked and not worked terribly well.
- 6:43And just their attitude towards industry has been not very nice.
- 6:46They have not been very great to deal with as as a new
- 6:49monopolist. So, you know, given that vacuum,
- 6:52general dissatisfaction with ACP, Google then came in and at
- 6:56NRF this year in January released UCP.
- 7:00And just as an example of the difference between these two
- 7:03organisations, it was rumoured, I didn't even see it, but it was
- 7:06rumoured that Open AI had two attendees at NRF, which is the
- 7:10world's largest retail conference, 10's and 10s of
- 7:13thousands of people, right? Everyone there, everyone there,
- 7:16and they send two random people from Open AI apparently.
- 7:20And then you compare that to Google and you've got Sundar,
- 7:22the CEO on stage at doing a massive keynote to kick off the
- 7:27launch of UCP. And there must have been 200
- 7:30people from Google there. That's the difference between
- 7:33these two organisations. Google cares.
- 7:35Open AI clearly doesn't care and you can talk to people.
- 7:38Google like what a novel concept that you can actually find time
- 7:41and talk to people and talk about the protocol.
- 7:44Google's been trying commerce many different ways over the
- 7:46decades, some successful, some not, but they've been learning
- 7:50and they have real, credible, serious people there who
- 7:52understand commerce. Now there's still some gaps for
- 7:55sure, but UCP is a much, much, much better protocol than ACP
- 8:00and it shows that they consulted with industry and it shows that
- 8:03they at least halfway know what they're doing, which is great to
- 8:05see. But UCP also is much more widely
- 8:10supported now. They've been much more open.
- 8:12They donated it to a foundation which has been great ties in
- 8:16with the merchant centre. So if you're already a Google
- 8:18customer and you upload your product catalogue for
- 8:21advertising purposes, you can now auto sell.
- 8:25It's also an extendable protocol, so Talon One, which
- 8:28was a promotions vendor, just recently sold to Adyen.
- 8:32They built a loyalty extension to UCP and I would expect to see
- 8:36many more extensions over time, which is great.
- 8:39So I give credit to Google here for really knocking it out of
- 8:43the park with UCP and I'm cheering them on to win this
- 8:47battle. Now one of the areas that I know
- 8:49we've obviously spoken before was around all the management
- 8:52and how you're potentially looking at that whole back end
- 8:57process system technologies to create a unified way.
- 9:02Can you just talk me through what, what, what are you
- 9:04actually practically looking at and, and what are you putting
- 9:07together or what has been put together?
- 9:09Well, ACP and UCP are selling channel standards only.
- 9:12So they are just order capture and they sit between the
- 9:17commerce platform, whatever that happens to be.
- 9:19You know, often something like Shopify or commerce tools, and
- 9:22then it sits between the payments vendor, you know, so
- 9:25think Stripe or Adian or somebody like that.
- 9:27And then finally, it's it's with the AI head.
- 9:30So think of your ChatGPT or your Google Gemini, something like
- 9:34that. And there's kind of a triangle
- 9:36there between those three. And the ending goal of that of
- 9:39those two protocols is to get you to a thank you for your
- 9:42order page, right? That the goal of those is now
- 9:46there's a lot more work, obviously behind the scenes.
- 9:48And this is something I fault both for not really taking
- 9:51seriously is you have to surface up inventory data and shipping
- 9:57data natively and quickly so that you are able to guarantee
- 10:01that the item is there sitting in a warehouse for fulfilment.
- 10:04And Alex, if you buy something, it says it's going to show up in
- 10:08your doorstep on Wednesday, right?
- 10:10Great. That's what you need to sell
- 10:11something. Otherwise you just have a
- 10:12product catalogue, which doesn't really help anyone.
- 10:15So that's one thing. Those are two things.
- 10:17The other is once you capture an order, you have to do something
- 10:20with the order, right? The order has to go somewhere
- 10:23and that can go right back down to fulfilment via an OMS. It can
- 10:28go through the commerce platform.
- 10:29So there's definitely a lot of areas of of improvement there.
- 10:33We have Pipe 17 where I'm President.
- 10:35We surface up inventory in many cases directly from the Three
- 10:38PL. We do so authoritatively.
- 10:40We do the same from shipping. And then we built a network so
- 10:43that you can pass orders to this network directly from ACP or UCP
- 10:47or via the commerce platform and then go all the way back to the
- 10:51Three PL or WMS for fulfilment. So we get it.
- 10:54We get the order from the thank you for your order page all the
- 10:57way through somebody's doorstep. Basically it's the back half of
- 11:00ACP and UCP. And where do you think so
- 11:02obviously, these are early days and retailers are sort of
- 11:05grappling around with what to do.
- 11:07What do I invest in now that will be fruitful in five years
- 11:12from now? What's your view like?
- 11:13What's the direction of travel that you're seeing that the
- 11:17industry is going when it comes to to to this new world?
- 11:20I'm seeing a lot of inertia, and the nurses do.
- 11:23Nothing. Wait to see who's going to be
- 11:26the winner or leader. Which is just waiting and
- 11:30waiting and kicking the can down the road and hoping that the
- 11:32next person in your seat has to deal with it and not you.
- 11:35Because look, you, you have to make some pretty substantial
- 11:38changes here, right? Like a lot of folks have legacy
- 11:41OMS going back 30 years. That doesn't work, clearly
- 11:44doesn't work very well. They've got home grown commerce
- 11:47platforms or some other mess, you know, that doesn't work very
- 11:50well. So if you're a VPAV commerce at
- 11:53a brand, what your goal is, is to do as much work around the
- 11:56edges as possible without having to make any difficult changes.
- 12:00So that's what leads to this Clippy phenomenon of, oh, we've
- 12:03got an assistant now and then. You know what's even worse is
- 12:07people do AB test visits with and without the assistant and
- 12:12they find, of course, that the assistant dramatically over
- 12:14converts relative to your normal control group.
- 12:17And that's just because of selection bias.
- 12:19Because if somebody actually goes to your.com and is
- 12:21incentive, it's it's is interested enough in buying
- 12:25something from you that they then go to your assistant and
- 12:28engage with an assistant. That's a much higher conversion
- 12:30intent just off the bat. So then that gets reported back
- 12:33to the board as look, our AI work is actually paying off.
- 12:35Look at this, we got so much higher conversion rate.
- 12:37Isn't that awesome? And they're not.
- 12:39They're just not doing anything. So brands need to be doing a
- 12:42couple of things right now. They need to be enriching and
- 12:46cleaning up their product catalogue data.
- 12:48That's a really, really big one. Product catalogue data is a
- 12:51mess. Always has been, always will be.
- 12:53I sit on the board of Bluestone PIM and that's their entire
- 12:57pitch. Is your product catalogue data
- 12:59is a mess. Let us help you fix it.
- 13:00And I see it all every single day of my life.
- 13:03It's an absolute mess. So first people need to actually
- 13:06get it together and with AI now it's actually pretty easy to do.
- 13:09All of these Pims have pretty advanced AI capabilities where
- 13:12you can just have it go through and clean up things.
- 13:14And you also need, you know, and and like you need to add yes, no
- 13:20flags that AI can understand your clothing and items better.
- 13:25So your shirt, for example, right, You know how many
- 13:28buttons, right, that should be a distinct field, right?
- 13:31And then button type, you know, is, is bone equals true, is bone
- 13:35equals false, You're right. Is plastic true, right colour
- 13:40stitching, you know, thread colour.
- 13:42I mean, there are 1000 attributes on a shirt and AI
- 13:46thrives on that because people want very specific items, right?
- 13:49Maybe they'll upload a photo of an existing shirt that they
- 13:52like. And your AI assistant will then
- 13:54distil that down to its component parts and look for,
- 13:58you know, 50 different search criteria when it's searching the
- 14:01wide world of shirts and it come back with a shirt exactly like
- 14:04yours, but a different and brand, right?
- 14:06Like that's what people want these days.
- 14:07They don't just want another button up shirt with five
- 14:10attributes doesn't work very well.
- 14:12So that's one thing. Second thing is they have to
- 14:14publish their data or syndicate their data out to the AI heads.
- 14:17And you can go directly to ACP or UCP.
- 14:21And that's a big important step. You also have to focus on AEO or
- 14:26Geo. So making sure that you are
- 14:28publishing a lot of original content out there on your own
- 14:32domains, but also on third parties.
- 14:34It's ratings and reviews, it's Reddit, it's X, it's all over
- 14:38the place so that the LLMS can suck all that data in and return
- 14:43better products when necessary. You also have to invest in up to
- 14:47date order management, right? So selfishly you, you need
- 14:50something much more modern to deal with AI because is I think
- 14:54we're going to see not just two heads with open AI and Gemini
- 14:58and maybe Claude. I think AI is going to give rise
- 15:01to 1000 different heads where you're going to have, you know,
- 15:04video game developers and you're going to have some 16 year old
- 15:07kid who builds a hit video game and he's going to try to
- 15:10monetize that game through in app commerce.
- 15:12And you're going to see that rise just like we saw Minecraft.
- 15:15It's already, yeah, I mean, for me in Roblox, for any parent,
- 15:19they know that Roblox is the conduit into so much, such a
- 15:23large ecosystem that is trying to transact, that is trying to
- 15:27bring you on a consumer journey rather than a video game
- 15:31journey. And it's in.
- 15:32It's in. So look, there's a lot that has
- 15:35to happen between now and then, but right now, at a very
- 15:38minimum, cleaning data and publishing it up, those are the
- 15:41top 2 just to get ready. The other thing is it's, it's a
- 15:45it's a people issue and a lot of folks out there are just not
- 15:49using AI in their day-to-day life.
- 15:50Maybe they're using it as a better Google Assistant.
- 15:53But there are a lot of ways, and I write about them on LinkedIn
- 15:56all the time that you can do categorically different, better
- 16:00work, right? It's an entirely different work
- 16:02style with AI versus not. And so many of these retailers
- 16:06are, are just doing, you know, like a lot of retailers even
- 16:10block access to ChatGPT and Claude, like they just block
- 16:14really. Like, are you supposed to run a
- 16:15business and block AI these days?
- 16:17But they do. It's because they're overzealous
- 16:19lawyers. And what about the the, you
- 16:22know, security and and, and and right.
- 16:24You know, and, and I think that's just so out of date now.
- 16:28And I think the AI native companies are gonna run circles
- 16:31around those who are not. Yeah.
- 16:33I've got, I've got 2 questions and I'll let you decide in which
- 16:35order you answer them because one of them sort of relates back
- 16:39to a couple of things you were saying down in a couple of
- 16:42minutes ago. And the other is just sort of
- 16:44thinking about this in the context of the business.
- 16:47So you spend your time podcasting on LinkedIn, you
- 16:52communicate a lot to the industry and you have your own
- 16:55communities, communities that you are actively participating
- 17:00in. What's the one thing that you
- 17:01find people mostly disagree with you if they do in that?
- 17:05Perspective, it's always the timing of of these big shifts in
- 17:10the market. So I've been on.
- 17:12That for me, you think it's going to happen sooner or later
- 17:15or what's the what's the thinking there?
- 17:17Social media rewards certainty. I do not have certainty.
- 17:21Nobody does. Anybody claiming to have
- 17:23certainty is lying. Yeah, there are some people who
- 17:26say you have to do this right this very moment.
- 17:29You know, There are others who say this is just a fad.
- 17:32It's going to pass, you know, give it 10 years before we start
- 17:34to see real improvement and it's still not going to fundamentally
- 17:37change the market. And I could argue this entirely
- 17:40both different ways, right? And I do like, I argue my, you
- 17:44know, like I'll give you an example.
- 17:45Last week I had to make some 1800 calls for insurance for my
- 17:49cellphone provider airline. And I go through all the
- 17:53authentication process with all three of these providers.
- 17:56So you have to enter in your ID number and date of birth and PIN
- 18:00codes and everything else. And then in all three cases, you
- 18:04get to a human agent and they ask you what your name is.
- 18:09Security purposes, you said, I've said that three times, but.
- 18:12Like what are we doing here guys?
- 18:14Right. And these are big household name
- 18:15companies. So, you know, I think that and
- 18:18this technology to be able to hand off an authenticated user
- 18:21has existed for decades and I see big companies completely
- 18:25unable to actually implement any of this stuff whatsoever.
- 18:28On the other side, you know, I look at my day job and I look
- 18:32around startup world where I live and we're all in this very
- 18:35deep. You know, friend of mine just
- 18:37raised 25,000,000 for his, his company Series A.
- 18:41And he said they're at six people and they just, they raise
- 18:45the money. And I said, well, you know, what
- 18:46are you going to do hiring wise? And he said we might add a 7th
- 18:49or 8th person, right? But like, that's an example of
- 18:52where, you know, startup world is very different.
- 18:55And in this world, we are killing it with AI and it's
- 18:59dramatically improved our efficiency in our lives.
- 19:01But then it's going to take longer.
- 19:03And it depends on where you are in the organisation and you
- 19:07know, what size of company you're at.
- 19:09Because if you are working at 100,000 person, you know,
- 19:12Fortune 10 company, you probably, you know, don't really
- 19:15know what's happening with AI and you're probably going to
- 19:17disagree with a lot of my posting because you think I'm
- 19:19nuts. If you're in the startup worlds,
- 19:21you're saying, well, yeah, of course, we've been doing this
- 19:23now for two months. Where have you been?
- 19:26Right. So it's it's a matter of where
- 19:29you are. And I get disagreements on both
- 19:31sides of that of you're late or you're way too early.
- 19:33And I do get that a lot. Interesting.
- 19:36I mean, put personal, personal and today I'm X Verizon, X
- 19:40Microsoft and I can see in both of those roles that I've had in
- 19:43those companies over the last 1315 years, given the technology
- 19:47just today, without going forward, I would probably have 5
- 19:50or 6, six agents working with me in my role to do what I'm doing
- 19:55right in my, my mental model for this is if even if you're an
- 19:59enterprise now, you would benefit from 5 or 6 agents
- 20:02helping you. I've got about 10 doing this
- 20:05little business or agency and that's helping me do all the
- 20:09bits. But when I think about my
- 20:10corporate career, I definitely think that, you know, the world
- 20:13has moved on. One thing that you mentioned,
- 20:16the second question that I want to ask is risk mitigation.
- 20:19I'm, you know, C level C. EIO, whatever CXO, I have to
- 20:23protect myself, right? I'm petrified of getting fired
- 20:26and I have to mitigate risk. And then everything you said
- 20:29about UCP about, you know, people just sort of not doing
- 20:33anything and waiting for the next person to do so it's
- 20:36probably because they don't want to take the risk.
- 20:39What are some of the ways I can mitigate risk from your
- 20:41perspective in going into this new new world?
- 20:45The whole the whole framing is wrong that you just gave which
- 20:49is sorry, I didn't mean to no. No, no, I love it.
- 20:54I love it. And historically, you would have
- 20:56had to have spent a lot of money to go all in on a new trend.
- 21:00Historically you would have had to and you'd go hire Accenture
- 21:03or Deloitte or, you know, pick your pick your big GSI and it
- 21:06would cost millions of dollars and it would be a six month
- 21:10project, 12 month project, you know, big presentation, you
- 21:14know, perfectly pressed pants, the whole thing, right?
- 21:16That's historically how it was done.
- 21:18And in that framing, it is risky if you go forward with something
- 21:22and it doesn't workout because you've invested a lot and then
- 21:26you lose a lot of money. Now you can get a random
- 21:28developer sitting in Dayton, OH. Sorry, I don't mean to pick on
- 21:32Ohio, but you know, take your random corporate developer and
- 21:35say go build me a UCP extension. Go do it and you can go pull up
- 21:40plot code for 20 bucks a month and build it.
- 21:43And your investment of time is basically 0.
- 21:46But people don't think that way. People think in terms of big
- 21:49projects that have to be managed and funded.
- 21:52And you need McKinsey and to tell you that it was a good idea
- 21:54and, and, and, and what we do in startup world.
- 21:57And the way to do it natively with AI is before you even have
- 22:01a discussion, just shut up and go build it.
- 22:03Just build it. Because again, like I'm building
- 22:05like I built myself a, an Onyx to UCP bridge on my own and it
- 22:11works. I shouldn't be doing that.
- 22:12But it was so easy to do. And AI makes this all so and
- 22:16simple. Yes, there are complications for
- 22:19sure, but you know, your investment is an order of
- 22:22magnitude lower. It's one person's time for an
- 22:26afternoon to go prototype and build something.
- 22:28That's what you need to be doing on a regular basis.
- 22:31And people just don't think that way.
- 22:32It's an old corporate mindset of we got to do this the right way.
- 22:36Big projects, big teams, the right way to do it is let's
- 22:39spend an afternoon on it, prototype it, let's see it.
- 22:42And then if that works, like, yeah, maybe then we spend a
- 22:44little bit more time productizing it.
- 22:46But until then, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense
- 22:48to do anything. Yeah, I got you.
- 22:50Agile plus work in small pods go fast.
- 22:53It's a right. It's the it's the hyper speed of
- 22:55the old way of iterate a technology innovation and how
- 22:59you sort of iterate your way. OK, makes sense to me.
- 23:01What's the one question I should have asked you that I didn't?
- 23:04That's a really good. Question, I guess what people
- 23:08individually, Yeah, I guess what individuals can do now to
- 23:12upskill themselves with AI. OK, level.
- 23:14Level how? Do you do it?
- 23:16What I've been doing is I've got a cheap Laserjet printer and I
- 23:21print off documentation for Claude and for others, and I
- 23:25will just take that and sit by the lake and read.
- 23:28That's what you have to do. And then I'll go play.
- 23:30And I spend a lot of Saturdays just learning and doing.
- 23:34But you have to do it right. That's the key is you have to
- 23:37actually do it. And what's great about AI is if
- 23:39you get stuck, you ask your Claude, hey, what am I doing
- 23:42wrong here? It'll tell you, right.
- 23:45I mean, how cool is that? But people just don't aren't
- 23:48like really opposed to learning new things, especially people
- 23:52who are further along in their careers and who are used to
- 23:54doing things a very specific way get very stuck.
- 23:57And they just are very dismissive of this type of, of
- 24:01iteration and learning. But you just, you got to put in
- 24:03the time and work and do it and play with it.
- 24:06Nobody's going to teach you how to do it.
- 24:08Yeah, I. It's interesting.
- 24:10Because a lifetime and. A lot of what you've said
- 24:12resonates to me, but because I've been out of corporate for
- 24:15such a long time, I've sold. I may be buying into what CEO S
- 24:19or execs say on conference stages when they all understand
- 24:23sort of like the Amazon plague book of failed forward
- 24:26experiment fast. But listening to you, it feels
- 24:29like those days that I've got I've then are still, you know,
- 24:33are still living. They haven't really disappeared
- 24:35and there are a lot of companies who are still scared of change
- 24:38or taking a risk in this world, which which is which is the
- 24:42shame. But again, maybe that's what
- 24:44separates the people Who Will Win and the people who will lose
- 24:47in the AI generation. OK, listen, Kelly, believe it or
- 24:51not, we've always been talking for 30 minutes, which is double
- 24:54my normal show length. So I don't know what that's
- 24:57going to. Do to the algorithm, but it was
- 24:58a. Conversation that I love and I
- 25:00can continue having. So thank you so much and maybe
- 25:03I'll ask you now. You'll be open to coming back in
- 25:05three to six months and we can have this conversation again,
- 25:09seeing where we are. I absolutely love it.
- 25:11Sounds great. Thanks for having me.
- 25:13Thanks, Kelly.