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Adam Bry discusses impactful technology (Part 3)

Adam Bry discusses impactful technology (Part 3)

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Bubbles and crashes kind of dynamics, which is fine. That's part of how the world works. And ultimately technology does get advanced in the bubble times and just takes, there's sort of the slope of enlightenment on the other side when these things actually get deployed. So I'm hesitant to, I just don't know enough about what's happening in these other companies to say what they could or should be doing differently. Do you think that you do anything that you've never read in an operating book on how to be CEO? I'm sure I do. I mean I said everything is kind of contextual and specific. I think of my job as I need to do whatever it takes, everything in my power, every drop of energy and capability that I have to set the company up to be successful and deliver the positive impact that we seek to create in the world. The thing that I would say over time I've gotten more and more focused on and I think and hope I can bring more and more clarity to, to the organization on is really, it sounds trite but really trying to provide value to civilization. Like I'm kind of an optimist capitalist. I think that the most business value is created by just doing useful things for other humans and companies and government agencies. These things are really kind of abstractions. They're just, they're abstractions to help people have a mental model for what they're supposed to do on a daily basis. But the end goal is to create technologies and provide services that are really useful and impactful to other humans. And so I spend more and more of my time when I'm thinking about long term strategy and investments and talking with the teams about what we should build of how can we be most useful to other humans. And I was saying before, what products can we build better than anybody else in the world? Is a different framing of that same thing. That's a statement of like what can we do that's going to be really, really useful to other people that they're not going to be able to get from anybody else? And let's go and do those things. I had a conversation with Chris Power probably 3 weeks ago from Hadrian and I was talking about like one way and two way doors. Where a two way door, you know, you can make a decision and walk forward and then walk back. If it's not the right one and one way doors, you walk, walk in and you can't walk backwards. And he had this interesting idea where he said yes, there are one way and two way doors, but in a lot of cases, especially with.
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