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Boris Valkov

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563 total appearances

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The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

So those are the three principles that I think are very, very critical and make us special as a company and set up for success.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

And back to your question on deploying cash and deploying a capital,

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

before you lay down the foundation, the company is ready for scale, it's going to be chaos.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

And we've been working the whole time to define the best possible foundation, best possible product, so that when you deploy much more cash, you can scale in a way that's more efficient than anything else.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

So just capital is not enough.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

It has to be set up.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

Yeah, so that's a critical question.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

And essentially, adding more people before you're ready actually can slow down the companies.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

And I've seen this many times in VMware and at Meta.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

Just adding people doesn't mean you're going to move faster.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

Because if you think about four people team,

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

Now one person needs to communicate with three.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

So when you become eight people team, it becomes a combinatorial explosion because now everyone needs to communicate to everyone to be able to kind of be up to speed.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

As you keep adding more, it just becomes the overhead of keeping everyone in sync and efficient becomes so hard that it actually can be counterproductive to the execution speed of the company.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

This is why you need two things.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

One is obviously team, so the great people are...

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

able to do much more work.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

So I've said this before, but like a 10x engineer is much more valuable and actually less capital than a not that a great engineer.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

So it's very careful to hire the best people.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

And we apply the same principle, not just engineering, but also in call center in sales everywhere.