Blake Scholl

All of this gets compounded returns.

The smaller a team, the easier it is to keep the talent bar high.

The number one thing great people want is to work with other great people.

Therefore, it's easier to attract and retain great people.

We have AI do the bullshit, and then the people are doing the most exciting work, which means we can attract and retain better people.

This flywheel starts to spin.

It's a really important talent engine.

This is one of my biggest focuses, is really building the talent engine.

We're doing a bunch of unconventional stuff.

We actually put an engineer in charge of recruiting.

It was this guy that we hired.

He had been a SpaceX manufacturing engineer.

He had been something like a six-year boom vet, had done a whole bunch of work on XB1.

He built the flight sim for Overture.

He was building the engine test facility.

I took a walk with him about two, three months ago.

I said, Nate, I'm going to ask you to do something different.

You're going to think I'm crazy.

I'm going to ask you to run HR.

And he's like, you're right.