Aaron Levie
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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He calls him these early pragmatists.
And there's this there's this sort of chasm, which is there's a lot of things that we as early adopters do that never make it mainstream.
And so we get all hyped up and we're like, oh my gosh, everyone's gonna, you know.
Wear contact lenses that have computers in them and like we're pumped and then like, you know, 12 of them sell or something.
And and I don't mean to, you know, maybe maybe somebody has it working somewhere, but like it clearly is not yet mass market.
So so apologies to to offending any any any startup.
Um so you have these early adopters that kind of confuse us because like we get these really interesting early data points.
And the funny thing is the early adopters are exactly what you need in all forms of technology adoption.
It's just unfortunately.
they're unreliable as evidence of of any other category in you know you can't a priori like know uh if if that audience is gonna you know be the the um uh uh the the the one that scales things.
So
So um, so then you've got these early uh pragmatists, which are this is like the person who's actually um the the the actual person in a company that's like, okay, maybe I can adopt this thing for give me some acceleration in this area.
Um, and and that's like your first indication that maybe things are taking off.
They they want a little bit of an early advantage, but these are still the kind of crazy people in the company.
They're not, they're not like like the CI.
CIO of Goldman Sachs, like who's like s like in in this case actually the the CTO of Goldman Sachs is actually is actually this person.
Is actually this person.
So
So so I chose exactly the wrong company.
Um was that Marko?
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